Five Windows

*Coverage in local media outlets such as San Francisco Chronicle, KQED, KALW, San Francisco Magazine, SF Weekly, SF Bay Guardian, East Bay Express, Berkeleyside, and more *Reviews, interviews, and features in The Believer, The Rumpus, Brooklyn Rail, The Millions, OZY, Necessary Fiction, Lit Hub, and Electric Lit, where the author has strong connections *Direct outreach to Bay Area bookstores with which the author has connections, including Green Apple, Booksmith, Books Inc., Folio, Mrs. Dalloway’s, Diesel, Copperfield’s, Point Reyes Books, Bookshop Santa Cruz, and Kepler’s *Seeking blurbs from Andrew Sean Greer, Daniel Handler, Roxane Gay, David Ulin, Armistead Maupin, Dan Chaon, Joshua Mohr, and Vanessa Hua *Promotion through author's associations, including Northwestern University alumni association, University of Arizona MFA in Writing program, ALA GLBT Roundtable *Timed publication of excerpts, essays, and features *Advertising Budget Available *Co-op Budget Available *Major National Review Push *Mass Galley Mailing *Giveaways through Instagram and Amazon *Egalleys available on Edelweiss

With shades of Hitchcock's Rear Window, a homebound man becomes increasingly consumed by what he thinks he sees at a four-stop intersection in his San Francisco neighborhood."Darkly funny and surreal, FIVE WINDOWS is a timely, page-turning debut about alienation and breakdowns communal and individual." - Vanessa Hua, author of River of Stars At a busy intersection on a crammed city hillside, an overworked book editor looks up long enough to watch a trio of houses go up in flames. Once the smoke clears, he becomes increasingly concerned by what he sees out his windows and starts asking questions he never bothered with before: Is the encampment in the park responsible for the fires—or are his new upscale neighbors somehow to blame? Has the man upstairs even bothered to notice, or is his time better spent battling with his boyfriend? What's his own ex-wife doing, resurfacing now just when things are getting tense? Is everyone safer with more fire trucks around? And, just a block down the hill, is the new mixed-use project the perfect urban remedy, or will it do even more damage? By the time the home across the street catches fire, he has to face a few questions about himself, too, including his own role in the neighborhood's upheaval. Inspired by Hitchcock's Rear Window and set in San Francisco, Jon Roemer's debut novel explores a fabled American city divided by rapid and aggressive change.