Neon in Daylight, Hermione Hoby
Neon in Daylight, Hermione Hoby
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Neon in Daylight

Author: Hermione Hoby

Narrator: Saskia Maarleveld

Unabridged: 8 hr

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/09/2018

Synopsis

New York City in 2012, the sweltering summer before Hurricane Sandy hits. Kate, a young woman newly arrived from England, is staying in a Manhattan apartment while she tries to figure out her future. She has two unfortunate responsibilities during her time in America: to make regular Skype calls to her miserable boyfriend back home, and to cat-sit an indifferent feline named Joni Mitchell.The city has other plans for her. In New York’s parks and bodegas, its galleries and performance spaces, its bars and clubs crowded with bodies, Kate encounters two strangers who will transform her stay: Bill, a charismatic but embittered writer made famous by the movie version of his only novel; and Inez, his daughter, a recent high school graduate who supplements her Bushwick cafe salary by enacting the fantasies of men she meets on Craigslist. Unmoored from her old life, Kate becomes infatuated with both of them.Set during a heatwave that feels like it will never break, Neon in Daylight marries deep intelligence with captivating characters to offer us a joyful, unflinching exploration of desire, solitude, and the thin line between life and art.

About Hermione Hoby

Hermione Hoby grew up in south London and has lived in New York since 2010. She is a freelance journalist who writes about culture and gender for publications including the New Yorker, the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Times Literary Supplement. She also writes the “Stranger of the Week” column for the Awl. Neon in Daylight is her first novel.

About Saskia Maarleveld

Saskia Maarleveld is an experienced voice-over actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator. Raised in New Zealand and France, she is highly skilled with accents and dialects, and many of her books have been narrated entirely in accents other than her own. In addition to audiobooks, her voice can be heard in animation, video games, and commercials.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jessica on August 10, 2017

My review includes the following important caveats: I don't really like books where New York City is a character, where it's revered as something special and magical. That perspective definitely had an impact on how I experienced the book. There is one really important thing I look for when I'm readi......more

Goodreads review by Chris on February 24, 2018

I loved this novel -- the East Village vibe, the eccentricity (and authenticity) of Inez and Kate and Bill, the utterly beautiful writing throughout. This is not just a jaw-dropingly good first novel; it's a jaw-droppingly good novel, period.......more

Goodreads review by Paul on January 28, 2018

Well. It least it was a quick read. It is truly hard to fathom how such a boring, uninteresting book like this ever got published. The story takes place in NYC between a hot summer and hurricane Sandy not that it mattered and neither event has any baring on the story, but the book is about 3 terribly......more

Goodreads review by Jill on October 13, 2017

After turning the last page of Neon in Daylight, I realized I had developed a love/hate relationship with this book. So let’s start with the “love. Hermione Hoby can write and she’s not afraid to take risks with her characters. Although she is not a native New Yorker, she channels the New York vibe......more

Goodreads review by Janelle Janson on January 08, 2018

NEON DAYLIGHT by Hermione Hoby - Thank you so much to Catapult for providing my free copy—all opinions are my own. “He pocketed the note and kept it, as a way of honoring unrequited, late-adolescent love. Which she’d look back on in twenty years’ time, most likely, with humor and affection. It’s nev......more

Quotes

“A classic New York City novel―sleek and stylish, both in literary craft and in the milieu portrayed.” Stephanie Danler, New York Times bestselling author

“Hoby avoids getting eaten alive by the city that never sleeps in Neon in Daylight." Vanity Fair

“In Hoby’s radiant first novel…her sentences are sleek and tailored. Language molds snugly to thought.” New York Times

"[In Hoby’s] smart, stylish debut novel…that rush of discovery and possibility—being young in New York—is entwined with displacement, disconnection, and self-deception. And a bruising loneliness is not only a potential side effect but a necessary part of the experience, too.” New York Times Book Review

“You’ll adore the bustling, artsy version of NYC in this read.” Bustle

“A sharp novel with perceptive observations…and vivid, complicated relationships.” Publishers Weekly

“In language so vivid that readers could break a sweat in an igloo, debut novelist Hoby brings to life the seamy underworld of bright, bored people during a suffocating New York City summer, demonstrating the sure hand seen in works by Bret Easton Ellis and Tama Janowitz.” Library Journal

“With effortlessly fluid prose, Hoby, herself a New York transplant from London, excels most promisingly in depicting the vivid, perhaps most iconic American city.” Booklist

“Hoby is a master of atmosphere…[especially of] the vibrant loneliness.” Kirkus Reviews

Awards

  • Indie Next List
  • Bustle Pick
  • Vanity Fair Hot Type
  • New York Times   Bestseller
  • Millions.com Pick
  • BookRiot Pick
  • Refinery29 Pick
  • Electric Literature
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