Today is Erika Robuck’s third release from Penguin/Nal, Fallen Beauty, an historical fiction novel starring Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Millay, a rebel devotee of love and passion, of Life, a dazzling revelrous madwoman who brutally demanded what it means to live out of life: from the timeless space of fear and love, devotion, desperation, soul, the Call–Poetry–
This is a book about what it means to be a woman, an exile, and ultimately, redeemed.
Erika is a dear sister and friend, and without her I know I would not have undertaken the holy vow of endless devotion to the words. Which means I am not sure, without her, what would’ve become with this very life of my own.
Congrats, sister! Buy her new book, here.