Unusual stories. Unexpected voices. An immersive sense of place. Lee Boudreaux Books publishes both award-winning authors and writers making their literary debut. A carefully curated mix, these books share an underlying DNA: a mastery of language, commanding narrative momentum, and a knack for leaving us astonished, delighted, disturbed, and powerfully affected, sometimes all at once.

LEE BOUDREAUX ON AS CLOSE TO US AS BREATHING

Two things instantly captivated me about this novel. The first was the autonomy afforded to Ada, Vivie, and Bec by inheriting “a room of [their] own” in the form of a summer beach cottage in an era when they must depend on a husband or a son to drive them to it. This paradox is just one of many rich details that bring this specific time and place to life on every page of this beautifully crafted novel. I was also deeply moved by the sense of duty and familial devotion that Poliner conveys with unwavering empathy. Even while we pray for Molly, Bec, Nelson, and the others to shed their burdens of grief and guilt, we see the abiding satisfactions of faith and family, of belonging to something larger than oneself. From the book’s first page, the beautiful rhythms of the language (it’s no surprise the author is a poet) and the feeling of being wholly transported to a different time, with its very different mores, held me in thrall.

 

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Over the course of her career, Lee Boudreaux has published a diverse list of titles, including Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Smith Henderson’s Fourth of July Creek, Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles, Ron Rash’s Serena, Jennifer Senior’s All Joy and No Fun, Curtis Sittenfeld’s Prep, and David Wroblewski’s The Story of Edgar Sawtelle, among many others.

  

For more information about forthcoming books, please go to leeboudreauxbooks.com.