[10/06/26] Kennedy, Christopher: Stealing Marquee Moon

Rose Books, paperback

Publication Date: October 6, 2026

Publisher Marketing: 

Stealing Marquee Moon is a hallucinatory triptych about a dying industrial town in the 1970s, a failed love affair in the West Coast art punk scene, and a man reckoning with his fractured past. This stunning debut novel by Christopher Kennedy moves through decades of desire, addiction, music, and loss and asks: can art ever return us to ourselves?

Excerpt: “Like an astronaut, I look for you in the flare of the genius sun in the blue-black sky, while terror draws a picture with its finger on my bedroom window—sand-worm, drought-fish, day-ghost—hieroglyphics I come to understand eventually: There is no sun. There are no stars. The coast is never clear.”