coming Oct. 14, 2025

A Harvest of Furies

Orrie and Emma’s family has been cursed for centuries, and as the siblings approach adulthood, the curse is starting to rear its head once again. Their father, Aggie, returns from war a stranger. His arrival shatters the fragile semblance of normality the family has cultivated in his absence. One by one, sordid secrets claw their way to the surface, exposing the rot underneath.

It’s not long before the deaths begin—and the voices in the walls grow louder.

This contemporary retelling of Aeschylus’s Oresteia, set in the American heartland, takes an unflinching look at how foreign war scars the intimate landscape of home—not just in the days of ancient Greek tragedy but in every time and place.

Praise for A Harvest of Furies

  • “A Harvest of Furies is a remarkable and ambitious novel about love, tragedy, and fate, rendered in gorgeous language and possessing remarkable insight into the ways our families both make and unmake us. Hayden Casey is following in the footsteps of greats like Anne Carson, Clarice Lispector, and Rachel Cusk, but ultimately always finds a path all his own.”

    Matt Bell, author of Appleseed

  • “A Harvest of Furies starts with a curse, but it reads like a blessing. Musical, momentous, and utterly inventive, Hayden Casey’s debut novel is a must-read update of a classic Greek tragedy. For while death stalks the pages of this book, every sentence brims with vitality, and every word feels sparkling and alive.”

    Allegra Hyde, author of The Last Catastrophe

  • “The exquisite prose and innovative form of A Harvest of Furies draw the reader in, inviting us to share in a family's haunting by curses, blessings, dreams, and lore, their longing for loves both present and past. Hayden Casey is a storyteller of wild imagination and deep heart.”

    Tara Ison, author of At the Hour Between Dog and Wolf

  • “Hayden Casey takes a glinting paring knife to this retelling of Aeschylus's Oresteia—exposing how adults, held hostage to their own mythology, justify their violence, and how the children who survive must bury not just the dead but the contaminating generational trauma. Poetic, twisted, brilliant.”

    Melanie Finn, author of The Hare