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Villa Coco: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer

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A sun-soaked Tuscan comedy about youth, age, love, chaos, and the strange freedom of becoming who you were meant to be.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by People, TIME, Esquire, Oprah Daily, Lit Hub, and The Seattle Times, Villa Coco is the new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer.

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About the book:

A young aspiring archivist arrives in the Italian countryside hoping to begin a more serious life. Instead, he finds himself working for Coco, a ninety-two-year-old Baronessa whose crumbling Tuscan villa is filled with art, antiques, secrets, and disorder.

His job is to catalog the villa’s treasures, but nothing at Villa Coco is as simple as it appears. Objects vanish, errands spiral, and the surrounding world fills with gin-drinking princesses, baffling handymen, roaming boarhunters, nuns, pugs, and local chaos.

Despite his best efforts to stay practical, he falls into an affair with a married man and begins to lose control of the future he had carefully imagined for himself. Then Coco draws him into her final great plan: to find the love of her life before it is too late.

Villa Coco is a bright, funny, and deeply humane novel about chosen family, reinvention, aging, desire, and the beautiful mess of being alive. It is a transportive Mediterranean escape with the charm of a vacation and the emotional pull of a coming-of-age story.

A sun-soaked Tuscan comedy about youth, age, love, chaos, and the strange freedom of becoming who you were meant to be.

A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEAR by People, TIME, Esquire, Oprah Daily, Lit Hub, and The Seattle Times, Villa Coco is the new novel from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer.

Rent new hardcover on Trove: $12.00 - Each rental copy can be rented for 30 days. If you love the book and decide to keep it, the remaining balance applies.

Buy new hardcover on Trove: $30.00

________________________________________

About the book:

A young aspiring archivist arrives in the Italian countryside hoping to begin a more serious life. Instead, he finds himself working for Coco, a ninety-two-year-old Baronessa whose crumbling Tuscan villa is filled with art, antiques, secrets, and disorder.

His job is to catalog the villa’s treasures, but nothing at Villa Coco is as simple as it appears. Objects vanish, errands spiral, and the surrounding world fills with gin-drinking princesses, baffling handymen, roaming boarhunters, nuns, pugs, and local chaos.

Despite his best efforts to stay practical, he falls into an affair with a married man and begins to lose control of the future he had carefully imagined for himself. Then Coco draws him into her final great plan: to find the love of her life before it is too late.

Villa Coco is a bright, funny, and deeply humane novel about chosen family, reinvention, aging, desire, and the beautiful mess of being alive. It is a transportive Mediterranean escape with the charm of a vacation and the emotional pull of a coming-of-age story.

  • Publisher: Doubleday
    Title: Villa Coco: A Novel
    Author: Andrew Sean Greer
    On Sale Date: June 9, 2026
    ISBN-13: 9780385551977
    ISBN-10: 0385551975
    Format: Hardcover
    Retail Price: $30.00 USD
    BISAC: Fiction / Coming of Age
    Page Count: 288
    Dimensions: 9.5 in H | 6.5 in W | 1 in T
    Weight: 1.1 lb

  • Andrew Sean Greer is the bestselling author of seven previous works of fiction, including Less, which won the Pulitzer Prize, and its companion novel Less Is Lost. His fiction is known for its humor, elegance, emotional warmth, and sharp attention to the absurdities of human life.

    Greer lives in San Francisco and Venice, Italy. With Villa Coco, he brings his signature wit and humanity to a sunlit story of Tuscany, friendship, romance, and the families we choose.

  • Pre-release readers are calling it charming, sun-soaked, and joyful:

    • Early readers describe Villa Coco as a funny, transporting escape into the Tuscan countryside, filled with eccentric characters, art, food, romance, and glorious disorder.

    • Booksellers are praising it as the perfect light-but-literary summer read: breezy, beautifully written, and full of old-school charm.

    • Reviewers highlight the Baronessa Coco as an unforgettable character whose chaotic villa becomes a world readers will want to stay inside.

    • Readers are calling the novel warm, witty, and deeply human, with a story that moves from farce and caper into something tender about youth, age, love, and finding your place in the world.

This book is for you if:

  • You want a warm, funny, beautifully written novel that takes you on a trip to Tuscany.

  • You loved Less Is Lost and want Andrew Sean Greer’s signature wit, charm, and emotional intelligence.

  • You enjoy books filled with eccentric characters, art, food, romance, and a bit of chaos.

  • You want a smart summer read that is light on its feet but still moving, thoughtful, and memorable.

Quotes:

“[Greer] captures the allure of la dolce vita—Renaissance paintings and books, bottles of Lambrusco wine and gelato—all bathed in a buttery Tuscan light.”
— TIME
“Feel[s] like a vacation.”
— Vogue
“[Villa Coco is] packed with warmth, wit, and charm [and a] steady supply of humor. . . . [A] perfect summer cocktail [of a novel].”
— The Boston Globe

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