Celadon Books is excited to announce the acquisition of assistant at ICM Partners Cat Shook’s debut novel IF WE’RE BEING HONEST, pitched as reminiscent of THIS IS WHERE I LEAVE YOU meets Four Weddings and a Funeral gone Southern, in which a boisterous family flocks home to a sweltering Georgia summer for the funeral of their beloved patriarch, where one too-honest eulogy rewrites their family history and leads them to surprising discoveries about themselves and each other over the next life-changing week, Associate Editor Randi Kramer acquired the novel, in a pre-empt, for publication in 2023, by Andrianna Yeatts at ICM (NA).
