Author profile
Katy Hays
Katy Hays is the novelist behind The Cloisters and Saltwater. Her fiction draws on art, privilege and the stories people construct around the lives they want.
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Literary Fiction4 May 2027 · US
Home Economics
Hays turns the country-house novel toward ownership, reputation and reinvention, giving the question of who belongs in a beautiful home a sharp comic edge.