The Weight of Sunshine





An evocative meditation on memory, light, and the landscapes we leave behind. Maguire's prose moves with the precision of a painter — the moment a room fills with morning, the moment it empties.

"A masterpiece of atmospheric fiction. Maguire writes with the eye of a painter and the soul of a poet."— The Paris Review

Biography

On writing, painting, and the in-between.

Robin Maguire is a novelist and visual artist working between New York and Berlin. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, and The White Review; her paintings and photographs have been exhibited at institutions including the Brooklyn Museum and Hamburger Bahnhof.

She is at work on her second novel, The Weight of Sunshine, forthcoming in Spring 2025.