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The Roxy Letters

Bridget Jones penned a diary; Roxy writes letters. Specifically: she writes letters to her hapless, rent-avoidant ex-boyfriend—and current roommate—Everett. This charming and funny twenty-something is under-employed (and under-romanced), and she’s decidedly fed up with the indignities she endures as a deli maid at (the original) Whole Foods, and the dismaying speed at which her beloved Austin is becoming corporatized. When a new Lululemon pops up at the intersection of Sixth and Lamar where the old Waterloo Video used to be, Roxy can stay silent no longer.

As her letters to Everett become less about overdue rent and more about the state of her life, Roxy realizes she’s ready to be the heroine of her own story. She decides to team up with her two best friends to save Austin—and rescue Roxy’s love life—in whatever way they can. But can this spunky, unforgettable millennial keep Austin weird, avoid arrest, and find romance—and even creative inspiration—in the process?

 
 

“Naughty, effervescent fun. A novel abounding in dauschunds, tweakers, real fulfillment centers, aisles of strange beer, and shrines to Venus (they work!). Roxy rocks Austin. And rights the world.”

—Joy Williams, author of The Visiting Privilege

"Roxy's life, from its wildly risqué escapades to its numerous crises du jour, is a total blast. Lowry's debut is the racy, funny page-turner we could use in these times."

—J. Ryan Stradal, author of The Lager Queen of Minnesota

"Roxy and Mary Pauline Lowry are keeping Austin weird and wacky in The Roxy Letters. If you’ve ever shaken your fist at gentrification, been in a creative rut, had a wild best friend, or wondered where the hell your Prince Charming is, this peppy, confident, rollicking ride is for you!"

—Georgia Clark, author of The Bucket List

"Roxy is good for a laugh, but her sincerity is even more affecting, especially when it comes to loving a place that has made insiders of so many outsiders....Reading The Roxy Letters is as refreshing as a dip in Austin's beloved Barton Springs natural swimming hole, the kind of comic novel we need right now. Not just because it is fun, funny and filled with eccentrics, but because Lowry's novel proves that good people working together can make positive changes.”

—Bethanne Patrick, The Washington Post

"Fans of Bridget Jones’s Diary or Where’d You Go Bernadette will love this laugh-out-loud novel...An adventure of heartwarming self-discovery."

—Good Morning America

“Bawdy, frank and laugh-out-loud funny,The Roxy Letters brings to antic life all the hilarity and peppy horrors of being rootless and questing in your twenties.”

—Julia Claiborne Johnson, author of Be Frank With Me

"The enormously talented Mary Pauline Lowry has given us a wonderful and compelling contradiction, a novel at once wicked and extravagant and vulnerable and pure. For comedy, for sheer joyous energy and deadly charm, you cannot do better than The Roxy Letters."

—Brady Udall, author of The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint

"Mary Pauline Lowry’s The Roxy Letters is too smart and clever to be called a romp, but whatever, it’s a total romp. I fell in love with Roxy, our hilarious, flawed, screwball narrator, and her quest to find herself in the muck of her twenties. Fun as heck."

—Annie Hartnett, author of Rabbit Cake

"Like a tarot reading in the mental hospital, Lowry's novel bursts with quirky spirit and gleeful comic energy."

—KIRKUS

“Move over Bridget Jones, Roxy is here to stay! Thank goddess! I loved every sentence of The Roxy Letters; I found myself laughing out loud at some of her wacky antics. I also loved the quirky cast of characters that danced across the pages, and I think Roxy is the perfect antihero for the new millennium. I can’t wait to see where Mary Pauline Lowry’s career is headed!” —Kathleen Caldwell, A Great Good Place for Books, Oakland, CA

—American Booksellers Association

“Tom Robbins meets Bridget Jones's Diary, eccentric, fun, delicious, for the thinking woman who loves her vagina."

—Rufi Thorpe, author of Dear Fang, With Love

"The breezy, charming, laugh-out-loud-funny voice of this book belies the strong bones of plot, character development, place and theme that lie beneath. Part love goddess, part urban warrior, part best-friend-you-wish-you-had, Roxy takes Austin by storm. You will fall in love with her."

—Francesca Lia Block, author of Weetzie Bat

"The Roxy Letters is bursting with originality, quirky wit, and delightful charm. This rollercoaster of a story is snappy, heartwarming, raunchy, and absurdly enjoyable. Roxy is an unforgettable narrator, and seeing Austin through her eyes is a real treat."

—Hannah Orenstein, author of Playing with Matches

“The Roxy Letters reimagines the tropes of chick lit for a new generation, complete with absurdly funny situations, ambivalence about adulthood, and the desire for connection and fulfilling relationships. But Roxy is far more than a cooler Bridget Jones—she’s a big-hearted, awkward, uproariously funny woman whose endearing antics and odd-yet-relatable struggles will resonate with millennial and Gen X readers.”

—BOOKLIST

"[D]iverting, thoughtful and laugh-out-loud funny."

—BOISE WEEKLY