06/17/2026
Happy Pride Month, readers! We invite you to celebrate with us on Tuesday, June 16th at the South Broadway Cultural Center where we will be joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Less", Andrew Sean Greer to chat about his new novel, "Villa Coco". Andrew will be in conversation with local romance author and friend of Bookworks, Emily Zipps.
Tickets are still available! Grab yours at the link in our bio. We can't wait to see you there!
About Villa Coco:
An aspiring archivist determined to begin a "serious" life after an undistinguished undergraduate career takes up residence in the Italian countryside. Here, he becomes the all-purpose assistant to the Baronessa, known to her friends as Coco, a defiantly youthful and naturally flamboyant woman of ninety-two. Amid a chaotic and colorful milieu of gin-swilling princesses, incomprehensible handymen, roaming boarhunters, nuns, and other local wildlife, our young man does his best to catalog the villa's extensive collection of art and antiques--although he notices that things seem to go missing from right under his nose.
Despite himself, he tumbles into an affair with a married man, complicating his future plans considerably. And when the Baronessa loses someone close to her, he becomes an unwitting accomplice in the acceleration of Coco's great and final plan: to locate the love of her life and be reunited before it's too late. Told with the signature wit, charm, and humanity that made Less an international phenomenon, Villa Coco is a dazzling, sun-soaked ode to life itself, a meditation on how seriously we ought to take ourselves, and a b***y Mediterranean ballad about becoming who we've always wanted to be.
