They Will Know Our Names // A Novel (Pre-order, March 2 2027)

Two friends, bound by music but separated by the Jim Crow-era color line, endure the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of life in this moving novel from the acclaimed author ofO Sinners!andDances

Hal Jansen, the artistic, sensitive youngest son of a successful department store executive, has just dropped out of college to begin a burgeoning folk music career when he stumbles into a chance performance by blues prodigy Rudy Amos. Amidst the political turmoil of the 1960s, the two immediately strike up a profound camaraderie and begin to write songs as letters to each other, as a way of transmuting all of their tribulations into music. Over decadesthrough addiction, mental health crises, societal expectations, profound personal loss, failed marriagesthe pair’s brotherhood sees them through as they put everything on the line for their dreams.

Set against the backdrop of a changing America,They Will Know Our Namesis a lyrical celebration of the transformative friendships that hold us through the chaos of life and the music that keeps us going, despite it all.

Nicole Cuffyis a proud Brooklyn emigrant living in D.C. She holds a BA in Writing from Columbia University and an MFA in Fiction from The New School. She does her best writing by hand and is a high-functioning book addict. Her work can be found inChautauqua, The Masters Review Volume VI, Blue Mesa Review,and theNew England Review,and her chapbook Atlas of the Body was an editors choice and finalist for the Black River Chapbook Competition and winner of the Chautauqua Janus Prize. She is the author ofDances, longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Hemingway Award, andO Sinners!, finalist for the Westport Prize for Literature.

• Publisher: One World
• Publish Date: March 02, 2027
• Pages: 368
• Language: English
• Type: Hardcover
• EAN/UPC: 9780593597477
• Dimensions: 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.0 inches | 1.3 pounds
• BISAC Categories: Popular Fiction, Historical Fiction