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Mohrbooks Literary Agency
Sebastian Ritscher
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English

THE ROXY LETTERS

Mary Pauline Lowry

Meet Roxy, one of the most endearing, hysterical and memorable characters to come along to steal your heart and make you smile. Her laugh-out-loud commentary on millennial dating, loneliness and money troubles will delight the readers of Bridget Jones Diairies. Roxy is a unique millennial protagonist - she wears her heart on her sleeve and is less cynical than many young protagonists. It's hilariously funny and will make you smile after you turn the last page.
The Roxy Letters is a romantic comedy entirely comprised of letters by our winsome 28-year old heroine who is writing to her ex-boyfriend (and roommate) Everett. The letters unfold with a captivating stream of consciousness and showcase Roxy's charming idiosyncrasies and observations. The narrative chronicles a few pivotal months in Roxy's life, which evolve with delightful randomness and unpredictability.

Whether it's protesting a corporate giant destroying her beloved Austin neighborhood, meeting a one of a kind new best friend, getting revenge on the meth heads that live next door, dabbling in something called, "Orgasmic Meditation," or her various romantic entanglements, Roxy's life is never boring. Along the way, complementing the hijinks and laugh out loud quips, is smart and subversive commentary about gentrification, capitalism and how hard it is to find your way.

This book is a quirky, one-of-a-kind, madcap and completely escapist real so sit back and enjoy Roxy's world you'll find yourself smiling on every page.

Mary Pauline Lowry is the author of the novel Wildfire (Skyhorse, 2014). She's a regular contributor to O, the Oprah Magazine. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, The Millions, Los Angeles Review of Books, and other publications.

A native Austinite, Mary is currently finishing an MFA at Boise State University where she is the Associate Editor of The Idaho Review.
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Published 2020-04-07 by Simon & Schuster

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Published 2020-04-07 by Simon & Schuster

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Naughty, effervescent fun. A novel abounding in dauschunds, tweakers, real fulfillment centers, aisles of strange beer, and shrines to Venus (they work!). Roxy rocks Austin. And rights the world.

Mary Pauline Lowry's THE ROXY LETTERS is too smart and clever to be called a romp, but whatever, it's a total romp. I fell in love with Roxy, our hilarious, flawed, screwball narrator, and her quest to find herself in the muck of her twenties. Fun as heck.

[A] fizzy epistolary novel.

Fans of 'Bridget Jones' Diary' or 'Where'd You Go Bernadette' will love this laugh-out-loud novel...An adventure of heartwarming self-discovery.

Fun, touching, and slightly ridiculous in all the best ways.

Roxy and Mary Pauline Lowry are keeping Austin weird and wacky in The Roxy Letters. If you've ever shaken your fist at gentrification, been in a creative rut, had a wild best friend, or wondered where the hell your Prince Charming is, this peppy, confident, rollicking ride is for you!

UK: Arrow/Penguin Random House ; Czech: Albatros

With an outdoor custom mural on one of the city's busiest boulevards, print and digital advertising in the Austin Chronicle, and geo-targeted social media, we're celebrating the book's setting for Austin readers. Read more...

Lowry is the heir apparent to Sarah Bird, whose comic novels Alamo House and The Boyfriend School perfectly captured the Austin of the 1980s. Lowry's novel bursts with quirky spirit and gleeful comic energy.

THE ROXY LETTERS is bursting with originality, quirky wit, and delightful charm. This rollercoaster of a story is snappy, heartwarming, raunchy, and absurdly enjoyable. Roxy is an unforgettable narrator, and seeing Austin through her eyes is a real treat.

A highly memorable cast of characters, including Artemis, an eccentric employee at the new Lululemon with whom Roxy forms a fast friendship, and fast-paced, laugh-out-loud scenes...make The Roxy Letters a worthwhile escapist read. And let's face it, we really need one of those right now.

The enormously talented Mary Pauline Lowry has given us a wonderful and compelling contradiction, a novel at once wicked and extravagant and vulnerable and pure. For comedy, for sheer joyous energy and deadly charm, you cannot do better than The Roxy Letters.

Author Mary Pauline shot a launch day Instagram video from her bathtub for Austin's BookPeople's story guaranteeing "if The Roxy Letters doesn't make you laugh so hard you snort Shiner Bock out of your nose, I'll buy you a latte once we're all done sheltering in place. Read more...

Reading 'The Roxy Letters' is as refreshing as a dip in Austin's beloved Barton Springs natural swimming hole, the kind of comic novel we need right now. Not just because it's fun, funny and filled with eccentrics, but because Lowry's novel proves that good people working together can make positive changes.

[D]iverting, thoughtful and laugh-out-loud funny.

We'll feature our brilliant video trailer in Facebook and Instagram ads, and encourage @simonbooks followers and early reviewers to post custom book gifs when sharing on Snapchat and Instagram. Read more...

Tom Robbins meets Bridget Jones' Diary, eccentric, fun, delicious, for the thinking woman who loves her vagina.

The breezy, charming, laugh-out-loud-funny voice of this book belies the strong bones of plot, character development, place and theme that lie beneath. Part love goddess, part urban warrior, part best-friend-you-wish-you-had, Roxy takes Austin by storm. You will fall in love with her.

Bawdy, frank and laugh-out-loud funny, The Roxy Letters brings to antic life all the hilarity and peppy horrors of being rootless and questing in your twenties.