Tatiana Țîbuleac is an award-winning Moldovan-Romanian author whose novels have been translated into 17 languages. A former journalist and UNICEF staffer, she now lives in Paris. Her latest book, The Summer My Mother Had Green Eyes, was translated from Romanian by Monica Cure, a Romanian-American writer, translator, and two-time Fulbright recipient and winner of the 2023 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize.
This novel, which will be published by Deep Vellum on January 13, 2026, traces Aleksy’s return to the pivotal summer he spent with his mother in rural France, when her revelation of a terminal illness forced them to confront old grief and unspoken tensions. Fourteen years later, through memory and therapy, he revisits those months of fragile reconciliation. Intimate and tender, it explores family, loss, and the difficult work of forgiveness.
Debutiful is honored to reveal the cover, featuring a painting by Cecilia Omara and design by Jen Blair, along with a Q&A with Țîbuleac and Cure about its creation.
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