
A scrappy reporter falls in love with his boss’s son in 1950s New York City. Nuclear grade pining. Also featuring lasagna and the inherent eroticism of watching baseball with your work spouse. You can buy it here. If you’d like a map of some key locations, you can find it here.
Praise for We Could Be So Good
- “A tender, heartening stunner of a love story” –BookPage (starred review)
- “Sublimely romantic” –Booklist (starred review)
- “Irresistible” –Publishers Weekly (starred review)
- “Sweetly angsty” –Library Journal (starred review)
- “When Cat Sebastian is creating romance, every serve is an ace” –NPR
- “A vividly portrayed midcentury romance filled with queer contentment” –Kirkus
- We Could Be So Good was on several best romances of 2023 lists, including NPR, Publishers Weekly, the New York Public Library, Audible, Booklist, BookPage, Netgalley, and The New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2023 as well as The New York Times’ best romances of 2023.
New York City, 1959
Nick Russo has worked his way from a rough Brooklyn neighborhood to a reporting job at one of the city’s biggest newspapers. But the late 1950s are a hostile time for gay men, and Nick knows that he can’t let anyone into his life. He just never counted on meeting someone as impossible to say no to as Andy.
Andy Fleming’s newspaper-tycoon father wants him to take over the family business. Andy, though, has no intention of running the paper. He’s barely able to run his life—he’s never paid a bill on time, routinely gets lost on the way to work, and would rather gouge out his own eyes than deal with office politics. Andy agrees to work for a year in the newsroom, knowing he’ll make an ass of himself and hate every second of it.
Except, Nick Russo keeps rescuing Andy: showing him the ropes, tracking down his keys, freeing his tie when it gets stuck in the ancient filing cabinets. Their unlikely friendship soon sharpens into feelings they can’t deny. But what feels possible in secret—this fragile, tender thing between them—seems doomed in the light of day. Now Nick and Andy have to decide if, for the first time, they’re willing to fight.
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Content notes: internalized homophobia, off page violence, blood, homophobic family members, reference to parental death
