Praise for ROUGH ANIMALS:

"A brilliant, incandescent debut that will remind everyone of a young Cormac McCarthy."
-Philipp Meyer, author of AMERICAN RUST and Pulitzer Prize finalist THE SON

"With some of Denis Johnson's flamboyant lyricism, when it comes to longings for transcendence, and with more than a little of Cormac McCarthy's implacable vision of a world in which we survive by doing the things most others could not bring themselves to do."
- Jim Shepard, National Book Award finalist and The Story Prize winning author of LIKE YOU'D UNDERSTAND ANYWAY and THE WORLD TO COME

"I dare you to draw a breath from beginning to end."
- Julia Glass, National Book Award winning author of THREE JUNES and A HOUSE AMONG THE TREES

PUBLISHED JUNE 5 2018

Rae DelBianco grew up in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she raised livestock from childhood, founding a beef cattle operation at fourteen. She attended Duke University as a Robertson Scholar and was later accepted to Curtis Brown's six-month novel writing course in London, where her work was chosen by internationally bestselling author Jeffrey Archer as runner-up in a 100 word story contest. She is an alumnus of literary magazine Tin House's Summer Workshop, as well as an Instagram influencer (@rae.delbianco) in literary fiction, and currently living outside New York City. Represented by Jonny Geller of Curtis Brown (UK, International, film) and Chris Clemans of Janklow & Nesbit (US), ROUGH ANIMALS is her first novel.