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Nymph by Sofia Montrone

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In the heat of an Italian summer, Leo comes of age between family tragedy, first love, and the ache of everything that cannot be held forever.

Nymph is Sofia Montrone’s debut novel, a literary coming-of-age story compared to Call Me By Your Name and Elena Ferrante, with advance praise from Emily Austin, Hilary Leichter, Anelise Chen, Heidi Julavits, and Adam Wilson.

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About the book:

As a child, Leo spends her summers at her grandmother’s aging Italian agriturismo, cleaning rooms and collecting the small objects guests leave behind. Her days are filled with family, mountain air, and the mythic stories her father tells about Odysseus, Troy, and distant wars.

Then an accident divides Leo’s life into before and after. What had once felt protected and enchanted becomes charged with grief, uncertainty, and the painful confusion of growing up.

Years later, Leo returns to the agriturismo for another sultry summer, but everything around her has shifted. Her grandmother is older, her brother is difficult and unpredictable, and Leo’s childhood curiosity has become something more restless and complicated.

When Dolores, an American girl, enters her life, Leo is drawn into the intensity of first love and the fragile freedom of becoming herself. Nymph is a lyrical, sensual, and emotionally precise novel about girlhood, grief, family, desire, and the memories that shape us long after summer ends.

In the heat of an Italian summer, Leo comes of age between family tragedy, first love, and the ache of everything that cannot be held forever.

Nymph is Sofia Montrone’s debut novel, a literary coming-of-age story compared to Call Me By Your Name and Elena Ferrante, with advance praise from Emily Austin, Hilary Leichter, Anelise Chen, Heidi Julavits, and Adam Wilson.

Rent new hardcover on Trove: $10.80 - Each rental copy can be rented for 30 days. If you love the book and decide to keep it, the remaining balance applies.

Buy new hardcover on Trove: $27.00

_________________________________________

About the book:

As a child, Leo spends her summers at her grandmother’s aging Italian agriturismo, cleaning rooms and collecting the small objects guests leave behind. Her days are filled with family, mountain air, and the mythic stories her father tells about Odysseus, Troy, and distant wars.

Then an accident divides Leo’s life into before and after. What had once felt protected and enchanted becomes charged with grief, uncertainty, and the painful confusion of growing up.

Years later, Leo returns to the agriturismo for another sultry summer, but everything around her has shifted. Her grandmother is older, her brother is difficult and unpredictable, and Leo’s childhood curiosity has become something more restless and complicated.

When Dolores, an American girl, enters her life, Leo is drawn into the intensity of first love and the fragile freedom of becoming herself. Nymph is a lyrical, sensual, and emotionally precise novel about girlhood, grief, family, desire, and the memories that shape us long after summer ends.

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  • Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
    Title: Nymph: A Novel
    Author: Sofia Montrone
    On Sale Date: June 9, 2026
    ISBN-13: 9781668200476
    ISBN-10: 1668200473
    Format: Hardcover
    Retail Price: $27.00 USD
    BISAC: Fiction / Literary
    Page Count: 256
    Dimensions: 8.4 in H | 5.5 in W | 0.9 in T
    Weight: 0.8 lb

  • Sofia Montrone is a writer and adjunct assistant professor in Columbia University’s undergraduate writing program. She previously served as editor-in-chief of The Columbia Review and director of Columbia Artist/Teachers.

    Her short fiction and criticism have appeared in The Columbia Review, Quarto, and Adroit. She holds an MFA from Columbia University, and Nymph is her first novel.

  • Pre-release readers are calling it lyrical, sun-drenched, and heartbreaking:

    • Early readers describe Nymph as an atmospheric coming-of-age debut filled with gorgeous prose, emotional power, and vulnerable, honest storytelling.

    • Reviewers praise the novel’s two-part structure, following Leo through the innocence of childhood and the aftershocks of a tragedy that changes her life.

    • Readers are responding to the book’s summery Italian setting, its nostalgia, and the way Montrone captures grief, desire, confusion, and self-discovery.

    • Early readers are calling Leo an unforgettable character, shaped by family, loss, first love, and the slow, uneven work of becoming herself.

This book is for you if:

  • You love literary coming-of-age novels with lush prose, emotional intensity, and a strong sense of place.

  • You are drawn to books set in Italy, especially stories filled with summer heat, family history, longing, and nostalgia.

  • You want a sapphic first-love story that feels tender, complicated, and deeply atmospheric.

  • You like novels that explore grief, girlhood, family bonds, self-discovery, and the strange divide between childhood and adulthood.

Quotes:

“Nymph is soft and sweet and hot and pungent and textured and strange and lovely. It’s both a perfect summer read and a genuinely beautiful book. I’ll be thinking about it for a very long time.”
— Literary Hub
“Beautiful. . . Montrone vividly harnesses the ache of first love and the youthful yearning for self-understanding, which, for the poetic-minded Leo, is as much tied to death and fate as it is to sexual desire. This will stay with readers.”
— Publishers Weekly
“Nostalgic, wistful, and beautifully written. The perfect summer read.”
— Emily Austin, bestselling author

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