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Rainey Royal
Rainey Royal Cycle (Related to this series)
- Author
- Dylan Landis
- Narrator
- Sophie Amoss
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 28 July 2026
- Run Time
- 7 hours 3 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
The acclaimed novel of girlhood, friendship, and sexuality set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of 1970, with a new introduction by Jessica Anya Blau
Fourteen-year-old Rainey Royal—fierce, gifted, and dangerously magnetic—lives in a once-elegant, now-crumbling townhouse with her cultish jazz-pianist father and the women who orbit him. Her mother is gone. Her father’s best friend hovers too close. And Rainey, left largely to her own devices, must learn to navigate desire, betrayal, and vulnerability in a city that shimmers with promise and threat. As she gathers friends and misfits into her orbit, Rainey tests the limits of who she can become—sometimes a rebel, sometimes a criminal, always a girl determined to recreate herself as both an artist and a young woman in a fractured world.
Each book in the Rainey Royal cycle can be read on its own, but together they echo and amplify one another, creating a world of almost unbearable richness and intensity.
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Details
- Author
- Dylan Landis
- Narrator
- Sophie Amoss
- Duration
- 7 hours 3 minutes
- Release Date
- 28 July 2026
- ISBN
- 9798898853495
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Narrative theme: Coming of age, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: general and literary
Synopsis
The acclaimed novel of girlhood, friendship, and sexuality set in the bohemian Greenwich Village of 1970, with a new introduction by Jessica Anya BlauFourteen-year-old Rainey Royal—fierce, gifted, and dangerously magnetic—lives in a once-elegant, now-crumbling townhouse with her cultish jazz-pianist father and the women who orbit him. Her mother is gone. Her father’s best friend hovers too close. And Rainey, left largely to her own devices, must learn to navigate desire, betrayal, and vulnerability in a city that shimmers with promise and threat. As she gathers friends and misfits into her orbit, Rainey tests the limits of who she can become—sometimes a rebel, sometimes a criminal, always a girl determined to recreate herself as both an artist and a young woman in a fractured world.Each book in the Rainey Royal cycle can be read on its own, but together they echo and amplify one another, creating a world of almost unbearable richness and intensity.
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