Andrew Sean Greer has a new novel coming next year, People magazine reports.
Doubleday will publish the author’s Villa Coco in the spring. It says the book “showcases his wit, sophistication, and deep knowledge of focaccia in this magical and madcap tale.”
Greer made his publishing debut in 2000 with the story collection How It Was for Me and followed that up with novels including The Path of Minor Planets, The Confessions of Max Tivoli, The Story of a Marriage, and The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.
Greer won the Pulitzer Prize in 2018 for his comic novel Less, and he published a sequel, Less Is Lost, in 2022.
Villa Coco will follow an unnamed young man who works for a wealthy widow in the Italian countryside; he is hired as an archivist but finds himself embarking on a number of odd jobs around the estate. “Told with the signature wit, insight, and deeply felt humanity that made Less an international phenomenon, Villa Coco is a dazzling, sun-soaked ode to life itself—a romp through a youthfully self-constructed emotional obstacle course, a meditation on what we give and take from others, and a bawdy Mediterranean ballad about becoming who you’ve always wanted to be,” Doubleday says.
Villa Coco is slated for publication on June 9, 2026.
Michael Schaub is a contributing writer.
