Landing in New York’s high society and underground art scene after her mother abandons her, street-smart sixteen-year-old Geraldine struggles to survive the efforts of three glamorous women who want to save her.
On Sale September 29, 2026
Sarah Blakley-Cartwright is a #1 New York Times bestselling novelist.
She is the author of Alice Sadie Celine (Simon Books, Simon & Schuster, November 28th, 2023). She is also the author of Red Riding Hood (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers), a New York Times #1 bestseller that was published worldwide in thirty-eight editions and fifteen languages.
Sarah is the editor of The Artist's Library, featuring conversation with artists on their most beloved books, transcribed, and appearing monthly at Hauser & Wirth's Ursula magazine. The series launched in March 2021 with Anj Smith on Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak, Memory. She is publishing director of the Chicago Review of Books and associate editor of A Public Space.
Praise for Alice Sadie Celine
“The absence of commas in the title of Sarah Blakley-Cartwright’s richly intimate debut adult novel hints at the characters’ boundary-less enmeshment in one another’s lives… Wickedly delightful.”
—THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
“Blakley-Cartwright's stylish and quippy writing offers thoughtful commentary on the women's many-faceted, much-entangled relationships, and how they've shaped, and been shaped by, one another.”
—BOOKLIST
"A lighthearted romp, tinged with melancholy, that gently pokes fun at sexual mores and those who defy them.”
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
“An elegant study of three women exploring their gender and sexuality… Packed with spiky insights. This satisfies the head and the heart.”
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
“Obsessed! Each sentence of Alice Sadie Celine is chock full of playful irreverence for feminist and gender theory, hip popular culture references, and the wide breadth of what defines female sexuality.”
—Chloë Sevigny
PRESS
BOMB MAGAZINE
ELECTRIC LITERATURE
INTERVIEW MAGAZINE