Love, Sivvy

• “A lyrical and intimate portrayal of Sylvia Plath’s early years… the novel captures… the exhilarating highs of recognition and publication alongside the devastating lows of clinical depression….A moving, page-turning portrait that will resonate with readers familiar with Plath’s ­battles with mental health.”–SLJ“Fictionalized but rooted in biography, this clever, thoughtful novel in verse offers a moving picture of Plath as a young woman, focusing primarily on her college years and covering 1948-1955. Narrating herself, Plath reveals her wry observations about her romances, her vacillations between being proud of her early publishing success and certainty that none of it really matters, her rage about injustices based on gender, and her profound depression and how it was an unwanted partner in everything she did.”–BCCB“Sivvy’s first-person narration captures the intensity of her emotional life….Readers become confidants in this highly relatable portrayal of a complex life.”–Kirkus

R.L. Toalson is the author of The Colors of the Rain, which won the Arnold Adoff Poetry Honor Award for New Voices in 2020; The Woods; The First Magnificent Summer; and Something Maybe Magnificent. She lives in San Antonio, Texas, with her one brilliant husband, six delightful children, and two arrogant cats.