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Rob Franklin is the author of Great Black Hope, which was published in June 2025. A national bestseller, Great Black Hope won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for literary excellence and was nominated for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, the Barnes and Noble Discover Prize, the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence. It was named a “Best Book of the Year” by TIME, Vogue, NPR, and Vanity Fair, among others. He lives in New York,

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3.49 avg rating — 4,004 ratings — published 2025 — 14 editions
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"4⭐️ The writing in this book is phenomenal! The sights, sounds, smells of NYC are written so well it brings you right into the nightlife!

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“And because it was funny, Smith laughed as well. A gut-clench, sight-blur of laughter, full as a palm's clutch of fireflies. They swam out to the night. Into the warmth they knew was a gift that would someday eclipse them.”
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“And if nothing lasts forever, why should intimacy shared for the duration of a pop song’s chorus be any less extraordinary?”
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“If you paused at the corner by the park and closed your eyes, you could listen as the honking traffic and heaving bodies swished and spun with laundromat rhythms and imagine that, when summer ended, all of this would again make sense—how you lived here, indeed, and why.”
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