Endorsements: Rodrigo Frésan, Hernan Diaz, Guadalupe Nettel
Early access copies
National print, radio, and online campaign
Targeted bookseller mailing
Promotion at: AWP, Texas Book Festival (potential), BEA
Promotion on Coffee House Press e-newsletter, website, and social media channels
Giveaways on Twitter, Instagram, & Goodreads
Simultaneous print and ebook release, with ebook ISBN to be included on all press materials, author and publisher websites, and whenever print ISBN is listed
Targeted publicity to promote author's speaking engagements
6-city author tour
At the turn of the twentieth century, as he composes a treatise on melancholy, Jacov Reinhardt sets off from his small Croatian village in search of his hero and unwitting mentor, Emiliano Gomez Carrasquilla, who is rumored to have disappeared into the South American jungle—“not lost, mind you, but retired.” Jacov’s narcissistic preoccupation with melancholy consumes him, and as he desperately recounts the myth of his journey to his trusted but ailing scribe, hope for an encounter with the lost philosopher who holds the key to Jacov’s obsession seems increasingly unlikely.
From Croatia to Germany, Hungary to Russia, and finally to the Americas, Jacov and his companions grapple with the limits of art, colonialism, and escapism in this antic debut where dark satire and skewed history converge.
