Gabrielle Glancy
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". . . a queer gem of a book...  wonderful, literary, sexy, funny . . , by turns mystifying, hilarious, admirable, and always hard to put down . . ."  
Vera is one of CURVE Magazine's
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We're not in 1999 anymore.  Vera has finally come out.
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​Pocket Books rejected Vera for being
 "too literary, on one hand, and too sexy on the other,"  while Clifford Chase calls it, "A new kind of novel: a love story of ideas, a lyrical romp, a faux mystery with genuine heart.”  



​​Part Don Quixote bubbling dreamer, part reckless detective, the narrator of Vera pilots her way through a murky urban terrain, in search of love and answers. What she discovers, in a 1990’s San Francisco stuck somewhere between AIDS and 9/11, is not what she set out to find.

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Vera has the last word in​ Publisher's Weekly, Gender Expressions:  Transgender Books, 2016.


​Witness Vera's Dazzling Rejections
Absolutely superb, sexy, captivating . . . W.W. Norton & Company
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An accomplished and inventive writer who knows what she is doing . . . I would guess there is a readership hungry for this book . . .  Henry Holt and Company, Inc.

A very sexy, charming writer . . . Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Glancy's an original, and writes with a great deal of energy and verve. . .Riverhead Books












The narrative voice is fantastic -- strong and funny.  This novel deserves attention.  Macmillan, U.K.

Vera is a wild ride, and Gabrielle Glancy writes with great energy and heat . . . Knopf
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An assured debut . . .  Bloomsbury, London

​Vera is truly one of the most inventive novels I have ever read . . . Penguin Putnam, Inc.

I have to say -- and you're calling my true colors now -- I think this manuscript sizzles too much for us to take on. Sorry to be such a prude.  Houghton Mifflin
I read it all in one sitting last Saturday.  Gabrielle Glancy is an enormously talented writer with a wonderful voice. Unfortunately, I think Vera is too literary for us, on one hand, and too sexy on the other.  Pocket Books
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