AFTER HOPPER

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Past and future meet in Georgette Gouveia’s “After Hopper,” a coming-of-age tale set in wartime New York, new from JMS Books.

When Vicky D'Angelo lands her first secretarial job after high school at a prestigious engineering firm in Manhattan, she hopes only that it will lead to a better life for her and her struggling, single mother. It's not long, however, before she realizes that the company she works for is no ordinary engineering firm and the colleague she has fallen in love with, no ordinary young man. Both will deliver her into a brilliant, unexpected life – but at a cost.

Based on a true story and Edward Hopper's 1940 painting "Office at Night," "After Hopper" is about how we grow amid great uncertainty, accepting loss and life coming full circle with love.

As a novelist, Gouveia is the author of “The Games Men Play” series, which includes “Seamless Sky,” “Burying the Dead,” “Daimon: A Novel of Alexander the Great” and “The Penalty for Holding,” a 2018 Lambda Literary Award finalist (all JMS Books) as well as “Water Music” (Greenleaf Book Group). (“The Games Men Play” is also the name of her sports/culture blog here, which features provocative posts on power and rivalry, usually illustrated with art historical works.) Her short story “The Glass Door” (also JMS books), about love and loss in the time of the pandemic, is on view in “Together apART:  Creating During COVID,” an exhibit at ArtsWestchester in White Plains, New York, through Aug. 1.

A 2020 YWCA Visionary Award winner and a 2018 Folio Women in Media Award winner, Gouveia is the editor in chief of WAG magazine, a luxury lifestyles publication of the Westchester and Fairfield County Business Journals that has been named a top magazine by the New York Press Association for five years, taking home six awards. Prior to that, she was senior cultural writer for Gannett Inc. where she earned four Associated Press Awards for visual arts reporting and criticism. She is the author of "The Essential Mary Cassatt" (Harry N. Abrams/Wonderland Press) and several exhibit catalog essays on the subjects of contemporary art and money and the Colombian painter Federico Uribe. She is co-curating and writing “Claiming the Canon: Women Disrupting Art History,” a proposed exhibit for the Lehman College Art Gallery.

Gouveia holds a bachelor of arts degree and a master of arts degree in critical writing from Sarah Lawrence College, where her teachers included the short story writer Grace Paley. When she's not writing, she enjoys ancient Greek culture, classical singing, yoga, walking, weight lifting and decorating her home. For more, visit jms-books.com and wagmag.com.