From Kate Walbert, National Book Award Finalist and New York Times bestselling author of A Short History of Women, comes an inventive and unabashedly literary novel set on a college campus and in the New York Theatre World, with a seductive cast of friends, lovers, and betrayers.

Tuesday Howard is a playwright and theater director whose work and life are shaped by a devastating betrayal in her college years and by Harold Pinter’s iconic play Betrayal. College friendships, their intensity and tenacity, are at the heart of the novel. Tuesday falls in with a theater crowd in the first days of her freshman year, and this cast of friends, collaborators, lovers, and enemies, comes and goes, interrupting the narrative, illuminating each present, through the decades that follow.

Dazzling at the sentence level, structurally complex, and exhilaratingly insightful, Enter Bear is about time, memory, and how writers make art out of life.

About The Author

Deborah Donenfeld

Kate Walbert

Kate Walbert is the author of seven works of fiction: She Was Like That, longlisted for the Story Prize and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; His Favorites, an Atlantic Monthly Best Book of the Year; The Sunken Cathedral; A Short History of Women, a New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of the Year and finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Our Kind, a National Book Award finalist; The Gardens of Kyoto; and the story collection Where She Went. Her work has appeared in many publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Best American Short Stories, and The O. Henry Prize stories. She lives with her family in New York City.