Nikki Ervice is the winner of the VQR Emily Clark Balch Prize for fiction, whose work has also appeared in The VQR, The Iowa Review, Colorado Review, Washington Square Review, and Passages North. Her debut novel, Roadshow, is set to be released on November 10, 2026, by Astra House.
Roadshow follows Annie, a burned-out New York performer who leaves behind her life of bartending and burlesque to drive cross-country to Alaska after receiving a letter from her mother, who abandoned her at birth. As her journey grows increasingly desperate and dangerous, Annie confronts questions of identity, inheritance, and survival while being pulled toward a final reckoning with her past. Blending grit and intimacy, the novel explores the cost of passion and the fragile ties between family, class, and selfhood.
Roadshow is available for pre-order now.
Debutiful is excited to reveal the cover, designed by Eli Mock, along with a Q&A with Ervice about how it was created.
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