“…skillfully rendered with an analytical self-awareness that critiques each genre. Crane’s gritty and illuminating style of storytelling is both compelling and delightfully rebellious, allowing her to address the limitations of each genre while she writes beyond each one”
it's been a strange, overwhelming day, and tho the staticky feeling will pass, I think I will never get over the sweetness of my friends showing me pictures like this: my book in their hands
A GOOD ANIMAL by @saramaurerwrites.bsky.social is the most beautiful novel I’ve read in a while. The setting, the sheep, the characters all felt so real I couldn’t believe I’d never see them again when I finished the last sentence. A heart-squeeze of a story.
#booksky
In this excerpt from my first book in Rolling Stone, I set up before + after. After school one day, en route to snacks and cartoons, I stumble on my dad, an imposing German-American with a graying widow’s peak, hunched over the kitchen table. He’s got a problem, and his solution takes me by surprise
“pristine” 👌
Lovely evening event with author @saramaurerwrites.bsky.social at The Bookman. Spread the word about this great debut novel. Pick up a copy of A Good Animal at your local bookshop! #Read #IndependentBookStores ##BookTok
A magical evening!
(just made it back to the hotel!)
Thank you so, so much!
Thanks so much! ❤️🐑
I’m soooo looking forward to it! I’m a bad Michigander and haven’t ever been to Grand Haven before! 😱
Proud of you
"Rural spaces, especially agricultural ones, never let you forget that you exist in a body, that you won’t be around forever."
@rsdeeren.bsky.social's interview with @saramaurerwrites.bsky.social on "A Good Animal” (@stmartinspress.bsky.social) is out now.
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book cover for a good animal by sara maurer with white lettering over a cloudy sky with a farmhouse under trees at sunset below
A GOOD ANIMAL by sara maurer @saramaurerwrites.bsky.social is available 2/24/26 from @stmartinspress.bsky.social @macmillanlib.bsky.social #debut #FirstLove #RuralLife #ComingOfAge #decision #BookSky get your @libraryreads.bsky.social votes in by 1/1!
We are neither friend, nor enemy because those could be metaphor I might come to understand, something made by diction, by definition or perhaps by reference to a painting – But I am boiling water at temperatures too high for this tea, this bite of York peppermint. Is your yearning to regain control of my life why you text me again, conjuring
"There is never / an ending to The End of the Affair, / to The Lover."
A poem by 𝗚𝗲𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗶𝗮 𝗦𝗮𝗻 𝗟𝗶 @georgia2newengland.bsky.social in the Fall 2025 issue
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#poetry #poetrycommunity
A GOOD ANIMAL is forthcoming February 24, 2026 from St. Martin’s Press.
Preorder at your local bookstore or through one of the links listed here => us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
🌾🐑 #agoodanimal
I post a Substack each month called Exit 394, where I recap what's been going on with A Good Animal and share some of the beautiful things I've been reading. I hope you'll I hope you'll take a minute and check it out.
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Poet in the house!
@georgia2newengland.bsky.social this August!
Gorgeous poetry book forthcoming in August from my friend @georgia2newengland.bsky.social
Preorder through the link below.
Thank you, friend!!!
Thank you, Glenna!!!
