Barbara Kingsolver Returns to Harper With New Novel

Jonathan Burnham, president and publisher of Harper, acquired USCOM rights to Barbara Kingsolver’s Partita, a “deeply moving novel about life and art,” from Sam Stoloff of the Frances Goldin Literary Agency.

The book, Kingsolver's first since the Pulitzer Prize–winning Demon Copperhead (2022), centers on Livia Cable, a married woman whose modest life in farm country is disrupted when an old lover from her days as a music conservatory student wants to reconnect. Publication is slated for Oct. 6, 2026.

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