
Available August 15, 2023
“In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel is a spellbinding novel, alive with feeling and discovery. Plunkett orchestrates an enrapturing story of a woman and mother tethered to a reality she would rather escape with bold jumps in time, nuanced observation, and flights of imagination. A book as much about the mundanities that trap us as it is about creativity’s promise of freedom, In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel is an absolutely brilliant feat. I can’t wait to see what Plunkett does next.”
—Rachel Yoder, author of Nightbitch
“Genevieve Plunkett’s In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel is an engrossing read that takes readers into the heart of what it means to be a mother, a wife, a creative being, a human with a heart that longs for more. Plunkett’s prose sparkles in every paragraph and kept me turning the pages long after my bedtime. Most importantly, her nuanced treatment of the decisions that people managing mental illness must make every day will comfort, inspire, entertain, and enlighten readers.”
—Christie Tate, New York Times bestselling author of Group
“In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel is a beating heart of flowing paths and urgent questions: how do we tell the difference between our dreams, our fantasies, and our possible futures? How do we step from one life into another, not knowing if the earth under our feet will hold? In this sensitive, suspenseful novel, Genevieve Plunkett fearlessly dances between past and present, between wanting and having, between loves laced with cruelty and loves aching with tenderness and possibility.”
—Caitlin Horrocks, author of Life Among the Terranauts
“In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel is a truly brilliant novel. This is a story about madness and music, forbidden love, entrapment and escape–all written in Plunkett’s electric and propulsive prose. It’s the most compelling novel I’ve read all year; I couldn’t put it down. Stunning.”
—Anna Hogeland, author of The Long Answer
“In the Lobby of the Dream Hotel mesmerized me: the quicksilver music of its language, the keenness of its observation, the richness of its empathy. Plunkett has made her protagonist’s interior world into a whole lush landscape and filled it with desire, loss, tenderness, humor, and tragedy. The result is a novel full of wild, irresistible life.”
—Clare Beams, author of The Illness Lesson
Genevieve Plunkett
Writer
Genevieve’s debut novel, IN THE LOBBY OF THE DREAM HOTEL, is available August 15, 2023 (Catapult). A recipient of an O. Henry Award, her short fiction can also be found in New England Review, Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Literary Hub, and The Best Small Fictions 2018. She lives in Vermont.

Genevieve Plunkett
Writer
Genevieve’s debut novel, IN THE LOBBY OF THE DREAM HOTEL, is available August 15, 2023 (Catapult). A recipient of an O. Henry Award, her short fiction can also be found in New England Review, Southern Review, Crazyhorse, Colorado Review, Literary Hub, and The Best Small Fictions 2018. She lives in Vermont.
Published Works
“A Girl’s Guide to Dead Horses in Vermont”
Literary Hub
“A Bone for Christmas”
Electric Literature
“7 Books About the Search for Intimacy”
Electric Literature
“The Year I Decorated a House That Wasn’t There”
Refinery29
“Something for a Young Woman”
New England Review
“Get Gregory Out”
Mud Season Review
“Schematic”
Willow Springs
“Rodeo”
Massachusetts Review
“Trespassers”
New England Review
“The Buried Man”
Crazyhorse
“Arla Had Horses”
West Branch
“The Volunteer”
Colorado Review
“If Tooth Could Mean Heart”
Arts & Letters
“Gorgon”
JuxtaProse
“Sting”
Chicago Quarterly Review
“Prepare Her”
The Southern Review
Interviews
O. Henry Prize Stories Author Spotlight
Random House
Behind the Byline
New England Review
10 Questions for Genevieve Plunkett
Massachusetts Review
Small, Shocking Doses of Empathy
Mud Season Review
Something for a Young Writer
Bennington Banner
Genevieve Recommends
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Events
Benefit for the Body – Readings at The Williams Bookstore
Authors and artists Yanyi (Dream of the Divided Field), Genevieve Plunkett (Prepare Her), Nandi Rose (Half Waif), Anna Hogeland (The Long Answer), and Alexis Schaitkin (Saint X; Elsewhere) will present short readings inspired by and in response to the increasing restrictions to bodily autonomy and reproductive liberty. Authors titles will be on hand for sale and signing. There is a $20 suggested donation, or pay what you can. All proceeds will go to The Center for Reproductive Rights.
Date:
Thu, November 3rd, 2022
5:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Location:
81 Spring Street
Williamstown, MA 01267
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