Genevieve Hudson – författare

“Fun as hell . . . An anthem for living and loving with abandon.”—Chelsea Bieker, author of Madwoman“Hudson’s writing is magnetic. It’s the Kristen Stewart of prose—chameleon-like, layered, funny and serious and sad, really gay, and so attractive . . . It wrecked me, just like I wanted.”—Them, on Boys of AlabamaFrom the acclaimed author of Boys of Alabama comes a propulsive and sexy novel about difficult decisions, bad timing, and the one who got awayFrom the outside, Reed has a great life. She lives in Amsterdam, works as a “creative” at a Dutch ad agency, and has a caring, driven girlfriend with whom she is trying to conceive a child. But, below the surface not everything is as it seems. Through a series of small choices and little compromises, Reed has lost sight of who she is and what she wants. A trip home to Charleston to attend her best friend’s wedding makes her wonder—who were those choices and compromises for?When Reed is confronted with a long-lost love, she is faced with questions she can’t avoid. What kind of person does she want to be: one who plays it safe or takes risks? What life will she live, a comfortable or ambitious one? And, which part of her will set the terms for her life: her anxiety or her truest desires?

“Daring, unusual . . . and startlingly fresh” (Don Noble, Alabama Public Radio), Boys of Alabama announced Genevieve Hudson’s place in the canon of the southern gothic alongside Donna Tartt and Harper Lee. Newly arrived in Alabama, Max falls in love, questions his faith, and navigates a strange power. Although his German parents don’t know what to make of a South pining for the past, shy Max thrives after being taken in by the football team. But when he meets fishnet-wearing Pan in physics class, they embark on a quixotic, consuming relationship. Writing in “prose that is always imaginative and sensual” (Sarah Neilson, Believer), Hudson offers a complex portrait of masculinity, religion, immigration, and the adolescent pressures that require total conformity.