Great Black Hope (2025)
‘A beautifully expansive novel about race and class... Franklin's emotional and intellectual range is vast... An exceptional debut’ – Katie Kitamura, author of Intimacies ‘So smart, so moving, so earned; as soon as I finished, I started reading it again’ – Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr! ‘The precision and ecstasy of Rob Franklin's prose had me entranced. Great Black Hope marks the arrival of a breathtakingly talented writer’ – Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning ‘Great Black Hope will allow you to vicariously experience a sweltering summer in the city – though this debut is much more than a simple tale of hedonism’ - BBC Culture ‘Perfectly captures the heady atmosphere of a New York summer’ - Dazed ‘A new voice in fiction to be reckoned with’ Harper’s Bazaar ‘Best Books of 2025’ ‘A book about New York that’s part love letter, part reckoning’ – Guardian ‘Gripping’ – Daily Mail An arrest for cocaine possession in the Hamptons on the last day of a sweltering summer leaves Smith, a young Black queer graduate, in a state of turmoil. Pulled into the court system and mandated treatment, he finds himself in an absurd but dangerous situation: his class protects him but his race does not…
- Published
- 2025
- Pages
- 320
