Overview

Jordyn is twenty-eight, living in Brooklyn, and just got dumped via text by a man who plays bass in a band called Entropy's Children. It's the latest in a long pattern of choosing emotionally unavailable partners—men who can't commit, can't stay, can't see her as anything more than someone to leave when they get bored.

Desperate for answers, she visits a Vedic astrologer in Bushwick who delivers a diagnosis: for seven years, Jordyn has been "chasing ghosts," attracted to illusion rather than substance. But there's hope—Jupiter is about to enter her seventh house, a once-in-twelve-years opportunity for real partnership. If she does the work.

Jordyn starts a newsletter documenting her experiment in vulnerability. Then she meets Sage—a documentary filmmaker who is brilliant, intense, and terrifyingly available. For the first time, Jordyn chooses someone real. But wanting to change and actually changing are two different things, and some patterns run deeper than any planetary transit can fix.

Jupiter in Brooklyn is a sharp, funny, and achingly honest novel about the gap between the person we perform and the person we are—and whether love can survive in that space.