Novel · Atmosphere Press · Spring 2027
Sixteen-year-old Paige Austin has always known she is different. Brilliant, and wary of her father’s violent temper, she learns the truth about her conception and tracks down the sperm donor her mother chose: Asher Salzman, a geneticist driven by his own troubled childhood to study whether science can alter violent traits. Their meeting draws two households into a tangle of old secrets.
Sharp, funny, and unsettling, Heredity is a novel about nature, nurture, and the resilience that helps families survive.
Tom on Heredity
Heredity began as Sperm, a Zoom play of mine that was produced during the pandemic. The five characters in the play all made the transition to the novel. The sci-fi element in Heredity first appeared in my young-adult novel, We Remember Everything.
