Elizabeth Strout, who won a Pulitzer Prize for
Olive Kitteridge, sold world rights to
Oh William! to
Andy Ward at Random House. The novel, RH said, is about a formerly married couple who are now friends. They watch their children grow up and reckon with their own pasts as they “unearth the kind of long-buried family secret that rearranges everything we think we know about those closest to us.” Strout was represented by
Molly Friedrich and
Oh William! is slated for October.
Putnam Goes ‘Orange’ for Yoon
Putnam’s
City of Orange by
Frankly in Love and the forthcoming
Version Zero). The adult novel is, Putnam said, an “intimate” tale about “a man who wakes up alone and injured in a postapocalyptic landscape and must find his way home.”