Available January 7, 2025
Fates and Furies meets The Silent Patient when movie star Lila Crayne and her film director fiancé embark on a feminist adaptation of Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night, prompting Lila to enter therapy in preparation for her leading role—but in doing so, she finds herself the victim in a deadly game of revenge in which everyone, on screen and off, is playing a part.
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.
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.
