Let me tell you: a novel
I am currently seeking representation for my novel, Let Me Tell You. I started writing in earnest in winter of 2019, just in time to really catch my stride during three months of strict lockdown when COVID-19 hit Barcelona.
In 2023, I was accepted to the artist residency Can Serrat to spend the month of October refining, perfecting, and polishing my manuscript.
The time at the residency was very fruitful. I was able to do the work the writer Alice McDermott describes as “looking for consequence, looking for pattern, sowing the psychological seeds in one scene that will blossom in another, as well as culling those seeds that fail to bloom…”
Summary
Ruby is fifteen the summer when she and a boy from her class start flirting over email (ah, the aughts…). Ruby falls hard for his witty prose and precise observations. Back at school, they don’t start dating as she had hoped, but they do become friends and remain friends into their late 20s. Another thing that remains? Ruby’s crush, kept alive by their emotional, and occasionally physical, intimacy. They are not together, but they are never apart for long.
After college, they travel to South America, where they hitchhike and party with the reckless abandon of the very young. They make friends and learn languages easily, but they don’t seem to grasp how to stop hurting each other.
A coming-of-age story about the foibles of modern love, the novel explores what it means to look for a home in the heart of another person.
