THE RADIANT DARK by @ali.oliva spotted at some of our local Indies!
Photo 1: @godmothersbooks 📍 Summerland, CA
Photo 2: @northshirebooks 📍Saratoga, NY
Photo 3: @strandbookstore 📍New York, NY
✨About the book: Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore in this captivating novel that follows a family for over fifty years—a bold and compassionate exploration of the universe around us and what it truly means to be human.
#theradiantdark #sjplit #sjp #bookstagram
In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, we’re spotlighting A QUITTER’S PARADISE by @elyshoshine .
✨ In this darkly funny and deeply moving debut, Eleanor struggles to process the death of a mother she never truly understood. Deliciously provocative and exquisitely crafted, A Quitter’s Paradise is an intimate, intergenerational saga of American immigrant ambition, and a profound contemplation of its long afterlife.
So exciting to see our newest SJP Lit release, THE RADIANT DARK by @ali.oliva , featured in today’s @nytimes ! 📚 What an incredible moment for this beautiful book and its brilliant author.
Wishing all of our readers a very happy Mother’s Day 💐
Our publisher @sarahjessicaparker and Team SJP Lit join us for this week’s Substack to share memories of reading with their moms. Spoiler: SJP’s mom, Barbra, is a power reader, and if you’re like us, you’re going to envy her reading schedule.
We hope you’re hugging your mother figures close this weekend, and asking them about their favorite reads.
Read now at sjplit.substack.com.
Sarah Jessica Parker discusses being a book publisher, a reader, a Booker Prize judge, and how she knew she had to publish The Radiant Dark while SJPLit author Alexandra Oliva takes us behind the scenes of her new novel in a special episode of #pouredover taped at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books at USC with host Miwa Messer.
Listen to #pouredover wherever you get your podcasts
The reviews are in, and THE RADIANT DARK by @ali.oliva is a MUST read!
✨About the book: Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore in this captivating novel that follows a family for over fifty years—a bold and compassionate exploration of the universe around us and what it truly means to be human.
#sjplit #theradiantdark #bookstagram
“On the night Carol Girard’s son was supposed to have been born— February 3, 1980—something flashes in the sky.”
THE RADIANT DARK by @ali.oliva is out NOW!
Narrated by: @barriebarriepix
✨About the book: Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore in this captivating novel that follows a family for over fifty years—a bold and compassionate exploration of the universe around us and what it truly means to be human.
#sjplit #bookstagram #theradiantdark
Author of SJP Lit’s recent release THE RADIANT DARK, @ali.oliva sits down with @ladies_who_lit founder @kaylenralph to explore how the unknown can draw us closer, what she discovered learning from astronomers, and how her experience of motherhood shaped the novel’s emotional core.
Read now at sjplit.substack.com
EDIT: Winners have been chosen. Thanks for entering!
✨GIVEAWAY✨
THE RADIANT DARK by @ali.oliva is out now, and to celebrate, we’re giving away copies and totes to 5 lucky winners!
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✨About the book: Arrival meets Wild Dark Shore in this captivating novel that follows a family for over fifty years—a bold and compassionate exploration of the universe around us and what it truly means to be human.
No purchase or payment necessary. Sweepstakes begins at 1 pm ET on 4/29/26 and ends at 12:59:59pm ET on 5/4/26. (“Sweepstakes Period”). Winners will be notified via DM on or after 5/6/26. One entry per user. Must be over 18 and a US resident. See Official Rules at the link in bio. Good luck!
Out today.
The Radiant Dark by Alexandra Oliva is finally in the world.
A mother, a daughter, a family, all set against the quiet and astonishing realization that we are not alone. Over decades, it becomes a story of longing, belonging, and the messages we send across impossible distances.
It will have you looking up at the night sky and then inward.
Available at your local independent bookseller or library.
With rave review from the @nytimes and @bostonglobe .
I can’t wait to hear what you all think.
Happy reading!
X, SJ
Happy #IndependentBookstoreDay! These are a few of team Zando’s favorite places to shop today (and every day). 📚
What’s your favorite independent bookstore?
