"It would be unwise . . . to miss out on this one." —Calvin Kasulke, Literary Hub; A Literary Hub Most Anticipated Book of the Year 

“Davey Davis is a master of moods, beauty rippling into unease like—as in one of Davis’s own metaphors—a firework display reflected on dark and shifting water.” —Torrey Peters, author of Detransition, Baby

"Enrapturing, entrancing dual narrative about bodily betrayals both real and imagined, fixation, neurosis, beauty, charisma, hotness, youth, death, impermanence, needs, wants, desire, regret, being proactive, being a vector, asking and not asking for what you actually want, and being and not being gay—sometimes at the same time!" —Harron Walker, author of Aggregated Discontent

"Casanova 20 is another stunner from one of the great writers of haunting fiction for our violent, sick, sometimes beautiful world. Davis has written a melancholy, lonely, fully embodied novel about art and desire and the self and how people get through. I was spellbound by every page of this uneasy and utterly surprising book." —Lydia Kiesling, author of Mobility

"What if you were unbearably hot for your entire life and one day, without warning, it stopped? One half of Davey Davis's third novel, Casanova 20 explores one straight man's grief over this conundrum, while the other side plays the story of an older gay painter watching his mother, sister, and then himself succumb to an unexplained but fatal illness. These two men's lives braid into each other while the world experiences the mass upheaval and grief of the covid pandemic. Davis is, as always, sharp and unexpected, even as they dig into themes around sex and illness that have infused their prior novels X and the earthquake room. Personally, I can't wait to see how some readers will misread the characters in this one—particularly the question of Adrian's sexuality and how to categorize the intimacy between the two leads. As with everything else in the novel, the answers are both straightforward and mysterious. It turns out twink death can happen to straights, too." —Morgan M. Page, cowriter of Framing Agnes and Boys Don't Cry