About the featured author:
From the author’s website:
Sash Bischoff is a writer and director. Her debut novel, Sweet Fury, will be published in January 2025 by Simon & Schuster in the US and Canada, as well as by Penguin Random House in the UK and Commonwealth. It will also be translated and published in Brazil, China, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Japan, Norway, Romania, Russia, Spain and Latin America, and Ukraine.
Sash attended Princeton University, where she trained under Jeffrey Eugenides and Joyce Carol Oates, won Princeton’s Creative Writing Fiction Award, and founded the Princeton Writers Group. She has written plays that have been developed at theatres throughout the US, and has held residencies at Ragdale, PLAYA, the Albee Foundation, Caldera, and Sirenland Writers Workshop.
Sash grew up as an actor, and won the National Arts Award (NFAA) for Acting. She currently lives in the West Village with her husband and their many pets.
About Sash’s book Sweet Fury:
When a beloved actress is cast in a feminist adaptation of a Fitzgerald classic, she finds herself the victim in a deadly game of revenge in which everyone, on screen and off, is playing a part.
“Cunningly ambitious, twisty, and immersive, it seduces you into a story so compelling that you aren’t ready for the sucker-punch of its deeper truths. This is a hell of a debut.” —Rebecca Makkai
Lila Crayne is America’s sweetheart: she’s generous and kind, gorgeous and magnetic. She and her fiancé, visionary filmmaker Kurt Royall, have settled into a stunning new West Village apartment and are set to begin filming their feminist adaptation of Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night.
To prepare for the leading role, Lila begins working with charming and accomplished therapist Jonah Gabriel to dig into the trauma of her past. Soon, Lila’s impeccably manicured life begins to unravel on the therapy couch—and Jonah is just the man to pick up the pieces. But everyone has a secret, and no one is quite who they seem.
A twisty, thought-provoking novel of construction and deconstruction in conversation with the works of F. Scott Fitzgerald and told through the lens of the film industry, Sweet Fury is an incisive and bold critique of America’s deep-rooted misogyny. With this novel, Bischoff examines the narratives we tell ourselves, and what happens when we co-opt others into those stories; and she probes the blurred lines between victim and perpetrator and the true meaning of justice.
Author visits:
Author visits with Sash are available via Adventures by the Book here.