SWEETENER has cemented it - Marissa Higgins is an incredible writer with a singular voice. Her follow-up to the incredible A GOOD HAPPY GIRL is unsurprisingly a perfect companion. Weird, wonderful, complicated women navigating relationships and family and held together expertly within Higgins' writing.

SWEETENER is about mothers. Firstly, and surprisingly, sugar mamas. And fake mothers. And wannabe mothers, and how we are mothers to each other. Charlotte is a rich, bored artist who as a pregnancy fetish and is a sugar mama to Rebecca. Rebecca's ex-wife, also named Rebecca, meets Charlotte separately (coincidence? Not really) and they both have a unique relationship with Charlotte, and also her friend Olivia.

This quick plot description doesn't quite do it justice though. SWEETENER is a vibe. It's surreal, and silly, and deep all at the same time. No one else is doing it like Marissa Higgins right now, and I feel so honored to be an early reader. Get this on your TBR right now!