Post­ed by Nao­mi Firestone-Teeter

Jen­nifer Miller, author of Inher­it­ing the Holy Land: An Amer­i­can’s Search for Hope in the Mid­dle East, will be pub­lish­ing her debut nov­el, The Year of the Gad­fly, in May (Houghton Mif­flin Harcourt).

Iris Dupont is a teenage reporter who com­munes with the ghost of Edward R. Mur­row. Jon­ah Kaplan is a failed micro­bi­ol­o­gist-turned biol­o­gy teacher who is haunt­ed by the ghosts of his past. Each embarks on a pri­vate inves­ti­ga­tion to uncov­er a secret soci­ety in their remote New Eng­land town. As Iris and Jon­ah’s paths start to inter­sect, they are drawn into the dark­er cor­ners of their town, their school, and their own minds.