Katy Simpson Smith

• Sep-2014
• / Historical

Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family -- fathers and daughters, mother and son, master and slave, characters who yearn for r...

• Feb-2016
• / Historical

From the author of the highly acclaimed The Story of Land and Sea comes a captivating novel, set in the late eighteenth-century American South, that follows a singular group of companions -- an escaped slave, a white orphan, and a Creek Indian -- who...

• Mar-2020
• / Historical

From a supremely talented author comes this brilliant and inventive novel, set in Rome in four different centuries, that explores love in all its various incarnations and ponders elemental questions of good and evil, obedience and free will that conn...

• Apr-2023
• / Women's Fiction

A Best Book of the Year at The New YorkerA Must Read at The Boston Globe, Literary Hub, The Millions, and Garden & Gun“[A] lyrical incisive novel . . . [about] a changing climate, the invisibility of women’s work, and the perseverance of unof...

• Aug-2026
• / Literary

A charged, delightfully offbeat novel of four women forging their way across time, place, and language in search of desire, power, and connection.Are Leonie and Max in love? They might be, still, or they might simply be living separate but intertwine...