For readers of Rachel Kushner and Martin Amis, a début novel for weirdos.
Maggie Franklin works at a high-end PR firm in Nashville, TN—owned by Richard Gadly, who occupies the gray space between what is legal and illegal in the intersecting spheres of business and politics as creeping authoritarianism infects Western democracies.
Can Maggie avoid the drain while navigating competing interests and the struggle for power? Desperate to remain outside the reach of corruption, things become complicated when her boyfriend—an aspiring writer named Liam Harrison—unwittingly finds himself in the middle of an international crime scheme. Making matters more complicated, the scheme originates from inside Maggie’s office. It’s here where Liam’s naiveté crashes head-on with the dark realities of Maggie’s work as morality distorts around her.
The history of jazz provides a soft thread connecting the book’s characters. If experiencing jazz can be thought of as discovery, so too are the main characters’ actions.
With wit and dark humor, Thom Donovan’s début novel looks at the breaking of little norms that give way to the larger issue of failing democracy.
Release date: September 28, 2023
Praise for THE TWIN AFFAIR
“Thom Donovan is a true Nashville creative – composer, recording artist, and now author of this fine new work of fiction. The Twin Affair is also true to this current moment in our nation—a gripping tale of human nature, politics and madness.”
—Keel Hunt, author of Coup and Crossing the Aisle
“Thom Donovan’s hard-hitting new novel The Twin Affair examines the relatable struggle of identity and the self; who we are compared to who we used to be.”
—Book Nook
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Thom Donovan 