Coming October 6, 2026
Named one of “The Novels Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2026” by The New York Times
The price of service to wealth and power is exposed when a father’s limits are tested on an ultrarich family’s remote island
“The Red Dress is one of the very best novels I’ve read in recent years. It’s all here—the complications of love, work, family, and age brought to bear in the struggle of a good man trying to make a decent life for himself and his young daughter… Frank Huyler is a novelist of the first rank, and The Red Dress had me firmly in its grip from start to finish.”
—Ben Fountain, author of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Rasputin Swims the Potomac
Frank Huyler is the author of three novels, including The Red Dress, and two books about his work as an emergency physician: The Blood of Strangers, considered a classic of medical writing, and White Hot Light, a finalist for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. His books have been widely translated, and his poems, essays, and opinion pieces have appeared in many publications, including the Atlantic, American Scholar, Guardian, New York Daily News, Vice, and Washington Post. Huyler practices medicine in Albuquerque, New Mexico.