ADELIA SAUNDERS ADELIA SAUNDERS has a New York University’s master’s degree in School of the Arts. She grew international relations from up in Durango, Colorado, and Georgetown University’s currently lives with her School of Foreign Service and family in New York City. a bachelor’s degree from INDELIBLE is her first novel. INDELIBLE (Bloomsbury USA, January 2017) masterful novel about his cheek. He’s in Paris for the A fate, family secrets, and the summer, studying a medieval stories our bodies tell. The New pilgrimage to the coast of Spain, where the body of Saint York Times Book Review describes it as a Jacques is said to have washed “seductive novel [whose] characters ashore, covered in scallop carry the weight of something shells. For his part, Neil falls they’re so desperately for Magdalena, captivated by ‘trying not to see.’” her pale eyes, charming Eastern European accent, and aura of Magdalena has an unsettling heartbreak. gift. She sees the truth about people written on their Neil’s father, Richard, is also in dates, details both searching for the truth banal and profound—and her about his late mother, a only relief from the onslaught famous expatriate American of information is to take off novelist who abandoned him at her glasses and let the world birth. All his life Richard has recede. Mercifully, her own clung to a single memory of his skin is blank. mother—her red shoes—which her biographers agree he never When she Neil, she is could have seen. intrigued to see her name on World English rights: Bloomsbury. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in France (Actes Sud), Germany (Manhattan Verlag/Goldmann), ans Poland (Kobiece) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann LEE SIEGEL has been a senior the writer at Lee Siegel Nation, editor and TV critic at the Harper’s, Talk magazine, and New Republic, book critic for the Los Angeles Times Book
ADELIA SAUNDERS ADELIA SAUNDERS has a master’s degree in international relations from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and a bachelor’s degree from New York University’s School of the Arts. She grew up in Durango, Colorado, and currently lives with her family in New York City. INDELIBLE is her first novel. INDELIBLE (Bloomsbury USA, January 2017) A masterful novel about fate, family secrets, and the stories our bodies tell. The New York Times Book Review describes it as a “seductive novel [whose] characters carry the weight of something they’re ‘trying so desperately not to see.’” Magdalena has an unsettling gift. She sees the truth about people written on their dates, details both banal and profound—and her only relief from the onslaught of information is to take off her glasses and let the world recede. Mercifully, her own skin is blank. When she Neil, she is intrigued to see her name on his cheek. He’s in Paris for the summer, studying a medieval pilgrimage to the coast of Spain, where the body of Saint Jacques is said to have washed ashore, covered in scallop shells. For his part, Neil falls for Magdalena, captivated by her pale eyes, charming Eastern European accent, and aura of heartbreak. Neil’s father, Richard, is also in searching for the truth about his late mother, a famous expatriate American novelist who abandoned him at birth. All his life Richard has clung to a single memory of his mother—her red shoes—which her biographers agree he never could have seen. World English rights: Bloomsbury. Translation rights: Regal Hoffmann. Sold in France (Actes Sud), Germany (Manhattan Verlag/Goldmann), ans Poland (Kobiece) Film rights: Regal Hoffmann LEE SIEGEL Lee Siegel has been a senior editor and TV critic at the New Republic, book critic for the Nation, writer at Harper’s, Talk magazine, and the Los Angeles Times Book