To Stay, To Stay, To Stay, the debut novel by Devon Halliday, is set over the course of a single humid week and traces seven interconnected lives of an ensemble cast in a small Appalachian college town as private crises surface and begin to collide. As secrets spread and choices sharpen, it becomes a study of staying versus leaving, and how even our most certain decisions can feel provisional under pressure.
To Stay, To Stay, To Stay will be published on October 27, 2026, by McSweeney’s and is available for preorder now.
Halliday is a Pushcart Prize–winning writer with fiction published in Ploughshares, One Story, and West Branch, among other journals. Her essays and criticism appear in Liberties, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and CRAFT.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover of To Stay, To Stay, To Stay, designed by Justin Carder with an illustration by Owen Pomery, along with a Q&A with Halliday about its creation.
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