The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

A heartbreaking and profoundly visionary book. Hannah Assadi movingly renders the kaleidoscopic nature of memory-revealing not only one woman’s disordered heart and mind, but the way our consciousness recombines shards of memory to create a glittering, prismatic view of a life. I wanted to stay in Assadi’s shimmering sentences for as long as I could. * Emily Fridlund, author of History of Wolves *Assadi captivates the senses, compelling readers to pause and reflect as they progress through the story. Highly recommended for those who enjoy lyrical fiction that explores women’s inner lives. * Booklist *Enchanted and haunting narration * The Millions *A story of love and loss * Harper’s Bazaar (US) *A darkly romantic story * Choice Magazine *The poetic beauty of the writing and a certain swirling Gothic passion and drama bowl the reader along… An unusual, intense, experimental novel * Daily Mail *Sharp and impressionistic sentences … an exhilarating reading experience * NPR *Elegiac with slightly gothic undertones * Sydney Morning Herald *Poignant … a testament to love and loss * Washington Post *A luminous and deeply moving portrait of the end of life and the persistence of desire. While Hannah Lillith Assadi’s characters are forced to deny the truth of themselves and who they love, in her assured hands the extraordinary beauty of life and love and the natural world is never lost – JoAnne Tompkins, author of What Comes AfterA prophetic fever dream sprung from a singular imagination. Hannah Lillith Assadi is an incomparable stylist and a fearless storyteller. This novel is a lush, addicting, daring wonder – Claire Vaye Watkins, author of I Love You But I’ve Chosen DarknessA rich, mesmerizing novel, in which waves of overlapping memory erode the landscape of a woman’s life until only feeling remains-both in the story and in the reader – Simon Van Booy, author of The Illusion of Separateness

Hannah Lillith Assadi received her MFA in fiction from the Columbia University School of the Arts. She was raised in Arizona by her Jewish mother and Palestinian father. She lives in Brooklyn. A 5 Under 35 National Book Award Honoree, her first novel, Sonora (Soho 2017) received the Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/ Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction.

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