Rainey Royal Deluxe Edition

Greenwich Village, 1970s: Rainey Royal, fourteen years old, talented, and troubled, lives in a once-decadent, now decaying brownstone with her father, a jazz musician with a cultish personality. Her mother has abandoned the family, and Rainey fends off advances from her father’s best friend while trying desperately to nurture her own creative drives and create a substitute family. She’s a rebel, even a criminal, but she’s also deeply vulnerable, fighting to figure out how to put back the boundaries her life has knocked down, and more than that, struggling to learn how to be an artist and a person in a broken world.

Author Biography

Dylan Landis is the author of three works of fiction in the Rainey Royal Cycle set in 1970s Greenwich Village: the forthcoming novel in stories List of All Possible Desires; the novel Rainey Royal, a New York Times Editors’ Choice; and the novel in stories Normal People Don’t Live Like This. Her work has appeared in O. Henry Prize Stories, Best American Nonrequired Reading, and other anthologies. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in fiction and lives in Los Angeles.