Get to know Joselyn Takacs

Joselyn Takacs holds a PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Southern California and an MFA in Fiction from Johns Hopkins University. Her fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast, Narrative, Tin House online, Harvard Review, The Rumpus, DIAGRAM, Columbia: A Journal of Art and Literature, and elsewhere. She has published interviews and book reviews in The Los Angeles Review of Books and Entropy. She was featured as one of Narrative magazine’s Top Writers Under 30. She has taught writing at the University of Southern California and Johns Hopkins University.

Hometown

Virginia Beach, VA (I now live in Portland, OR)

Fun fact

I'm an avid gardener

Favorite author

I'm currently loving Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld

Favorite place in the world

New Orleans

Favorite place to read

A front porch with a cold drink

Books by Joselyn Takacs

Pearce Oysters

Joselyn Takacs

Coming June 25, 2024



A divided family. A devastated community. And the disaster that brings them all together.

 

 

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Pearce Oysters, a family drama set on the Louisiana coastline during the historic 2010 oil spill, follows the Pearces, local oyster farmers whose business, family, and livelihood are on the brink of collapse.



This is eye-opening, eco-fiction at its best—a story that highlights the grit and beauty of lives lived in an overlooked corner of the American South. Diving deep into the bonds of family, culture, class, and industry, the novel elevates the voices of deeply sympathetic characters: Jordan, the reluctant head of his family’s storied oyster company; May, his distressed, widowed mother; and Benny, his beatnik musician brother, who returns from New Orleans in their time of crisis.

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