Advance Praise for The Gypsy Moth Summer

“This novel shakes and stirs family saga and summer romance upside down. The irresistible storytelling brings to life each character, and Fierro doesn’t just observe, she knows. She gives us a particular and narrow neighborhood, and like all great novelists, she gives us the world.”

—Amy Bloom, bestselling author of Away

“A deeply satisfying tale of family, first love, and home. It’s a meditation on what makes a community and a reminder that the past is never past and home is a place that is both beautiful and heartbreaking.”

—Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman

“Julia Fierro’s masterful second novel draws us close, makes us its confidante, and then delivers hard and violent truths about the island’s legacy of denial.”

—Scott Blackwood, author of See How Small

“Julia Fierro’s marvelous The Gypsy Moth Summer is a novel to slowly savor, settling in with her characters as you would old friends, cherishing every sentence, every turn of plot. Rarely does one encounter a novel this entertaining, which also speaks to the complicated truths about race and class at the heart of our country’s tangled history.”

—Joanna Rakoff, author of My Salinger Year

“A luminous, urgent novel about the forces that shape us all: where we grow up; whether we are loved by our parents or understood by our peers; how class, power, and money may cast our fates. I rooted for the lovers at the thrumming heart of the book with the hungry turn of every page.”

—Sophie McManus, author of The Unfortunates

“The Gypsy Moth Summer gathers all of life in its wonderfully confident reach: the buzzing energy of youth, the fraught hope of adulthood, the remorseless clarity of old age. Fierro’s thoroughly entertaining storytelling doesn’t prevent her from taking on weighty subjects. We are deeply invested in her characters around whom an air of tragic destiny hangs, and the pages fly by as the book hurtles toward its devastating conclusion.”

—Matthew Thomas, New York Times bestselling author of We Are Not Ourselves

“Masterpiece is a word that often is casually tossed around, but it fits Fierro’s work, which is so richly alive, so poetic, it is truly Shakespearean tragedy. I had a sense of wonder that someone could craft a novel as perfect as this one.”

—Caroline Leavitt, author of the New York Times bestsellers Pictures of You, Is This Tomorrow, and Cruel Beautiful World