Luna, Phoenix, Queen

‘Thrilling… . Luna, Phoenix, Queen brilliantly emphasizes the agony of isolation in its various forms, and the relief that can only come in telling a story for oneself.’ Meg Wolitzer, New York Times

‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen reimagined what I thought a novel could do. My favorite kind of novel.’ Caro Claire Burke, author of Yesteryear

‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen is a miracle of a book. A novel about love, memory, and betrayal, it is also a story about the search for freedom and the persistence of hope. Julie Orringer is one of our wisest and most open-hearted writers; this novel filled me with joy and wonder.’ Katie Kitamura, author of Audition

‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen breaks all the rules and makes its own. Gripping, heartbreaking, redemptive and a joy to read, Orringer has given readers a great gift. It will knock your socks off.’ Andrew Sean Greer, author of Less

‘No one writes a love story like Julie Orringer. In this intensely personal novel, illness cracks a family open to reveal, at its secret heart, a passionate affair, an edge-of-your-seat mystery, and one of the most memorable dogs in all of literature.’ Nell Freudenberger, author of The Limits

‘Luna, Phoenix, Queen is Julie Orringer at the top of her game… . Line by line, left turn by left turn, Orringer remains at the peak of her powers.’ Boston Globe

‘The star of [Luna, Phoenix, Queen] is not human at all, but an injured rescue dog, Luna, whom a few of the characters befriend… . Her quiet presence is a remedy to the human habits of competition and deceit.’ Wall Street Journal

‘I was so taken with Luna, Phoenix, Queen that I read it twice—in part to make sure it was really as good as I thought. It struck me as just about perfect both times… . Each chapter, full of drama and incident, packs the power of a well-crated short story… . Masterfully plotted, gorgeously moving.’ Heller McAlpin, NPR

‘A heart-seizing, insightful, complexly provocative, and profoundly intentional novel of loneliness and longing, betrayal and rescue, creativity and love’ Booklist starred review

‘A soulful novel that works variations on themes of love, loss, and legacy across eight linked sections that shift in time and point of view… Heart-stoppingly good’ Kirkus Reviews starred review

Julie Orringer is the author of three award-winning books: How to Breathe Underwater, The Invisible Bridge, and The Flight Portfolio, which was the basis for the 2023 Netflix series Transatlantic. She is the winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and MacDowell. She teaches at New York University and Stanford University, and lives in Brooklyn.

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