Book Launch with Jennifer Anne Gordon
About this Event
About the Author
Jennifer Anne Gordon is an award-winning author and podcast host. Her debut novel Beautiful, Frightening and Silent won the Kindle Book Award for Best Horror/Suspense for 2020, as well as the Best Horror Novel of the Year from the Authors on The Air Global Radio Network. Her novel Pretty/Ugly won the Helicon Award for Best Horror for 2022, and the Kindle Book Award for Best Novel of the Year 2022 (Reader’s Choice) Her novelette The Japanese Box won the Lit Nastie Award for 2023 for Best Short Story, and her essay Navy Blue Dickies (Glassworks) is a Best of the Net Nominee for 2025.
Her mainstream debut, a book club thriller, Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies will be released In September of 2026.
She is the host and creator of the comedic literary podcast Vox Vomitus, and a co host for House of Mystery, on NBC Radio.
She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, the musician and artist Roman Sirotin, and their sweet and silly dog, Lord Tubby.
For benevolent stalking please visit www.JenniferAnneGordon.com
About the Book
For fans of The Hunting Wives: A woman in mourning finds renewed purpose in her fake persona for an online mom group—but membership comes at a killer cost.
In the wake of losing her son, Becca also lost her marriage and her moorings. Now, work and time spent with her best friend, Lynn, are what gets her through the day. But it’s a private group of moms on social media that gets her through the long nights.
Run by Karen, the holy grail of perfect wives, Mommy Wine Time is a place where women share stories, perfectly airbrushed photos, and advice disguised as humble brags. And it’s where Becca pretends to be Lucy, with the help of a stock photo account. Lucy’s an ideal wife and mother living a dahlia-filled life in Seattle, enjoying all the things that Becca is certain she’ll never have again.
But the line between Becca’s truths and Lucy’s lies starts to blur when a series of bad deeds, daring games, and too many bottles of cheap chardonnay reveals something darker. Soon, what began as mere petty crimes escalates to kidnapping, assault, revenge, and M**der. Still, the more Becca pretends, the more alive she feels . . .
This psychological thriller from the author of Pretty/Ugly takes the wine moms from Big Little Lies and Desperate Housewives, puts them in an online space where it’s easier to hide their true identities, and then gives them even darker obsessions.
You can prorder your copy of Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies online from The Bookery or grab your signed copy at the launch!
Advanced Praise for Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies
“Jennifer Anne Gordon is many things, but if she’s one thing: She’s funny. Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies is an exquisite balance of rising dread with Gordon’s capital wit. You’ll find yourself wanting to partake in things you shouldn’t, even as the red flags unspool, leaving you worried for the characters while also relating to and laughing at a thousand asides. Just a brilliant book from a brilliant writer.” ―Josh Malerman, New York Times–bestselling author of Bird Box and Incidents Around the House
“In this intensely visceral suspense, a grieving mother seeks a life wholly different from the one she actually lives. Line by stunning line, Jennifer Anne Gordon rips apart sorrow, peeling layers from the skin until our every nerve ending is exposed. And when every secret and lie is laid bare, Gordon digs the needle in deeper. Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies is a riveting read that injects foreboding into every searing page.” ―Samantha M. Bailey, USA Today–bestselling author of Hello, Juliet
“Jennifer Anne Gordon has written that rarest of books: a menopausal, grief-soaked unicorn; part psychological thriller, hard-to-look-away-from horror, and sheer literary beauty. From the start, Gordon’s language of loss was so heartrending and true, I could not help but be ride-or-die for this book. Just thinking of the story during the day felt like a buzz in my pocket that made me jump like Karen was calling with a task for me. Gen Xers, do you remember how we wanted more than just Truth or Dare? We greedily called our game “Truth, Dare, Double Dare, Triple Dare, Consequences, Promise, and Repeat.” I think that might be the narrative arc of Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies. And that’s how I read this story of desperate housewives, this NXIVM Cult tale on steroids―greedily. Tearfully. Desperate to know not how things would end but how things would go on and on.” ―Diane Zinna, author of Letting Grief Speak: Writing Portals for Life After Loss and The All-Night Sun
Is PERFECT WIVES, PERFECT LIES a brilliant, beautiful, and blistering examination of a mother’s grief, or a darkly comedic, addictive thrill ride deep into the wine-mommiest cult of all time? In Jennifer Anne Gordon’s masterful hands, it’s somehow both—and so much more. I haven’t been this excited or entranced by a protagonist’s voice since YOU’s Joe Goldberg, and I would have followed our narrator into endless trainwrecks, trusting her to survive them all. –Megan Collins, author of CROSS MY HEART and THE FAMILY PLOT
With sharp wit, well-drawn characters and an expertly crafted plot, PERFECT WIVES, PERFECT LIES is a book you don’t want to miss. Gordon’s use of beautiful prose and snappy dialogue drew me in while the deeply unsettling plot kept me turning the pages. And holy plot twist! I did not see it coming. I loved it! — Amber Garza, author of WHEN I WAS YOU
“Perfect Wives, Perfect Lies is a ‘perfect’ combination of grief, obsession, and hidden identities. With spectacular literary prose, this shows what happens when online personas and the darker truths underneath clash. Gordon blends drama, emotional tension, and a never saw-it-coming twist in this highly entertaining standout thriller.”—Jaime Lynn Hendricks, bestselling author of Their Double Lives
“A disturbing, quirky, and addictive read.”
“It’s a twisty, haunting tale in which nothing is as it first appears.”
Their verdict: “Get It!” —Kirkus Reviews
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