{"id":278488,"date":"2025-07-20T23:02:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278488\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T23:02:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T23:02:11","slug":"pantera-acquires-memoir-juicy-by-joseph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/278488\/","title":{"rendered":"Pantera acquires memoir \u2018Juicy\u2019 by Joseph"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tMonday, 21 July 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n

Pantera Press has acquired world rights for the memoir Juicy: How to Live a Life in the Wreckage of Expectation by debut Lebanese-Australian author Sheree Joseph, in a two-book deal facilitated by founding director of Sweatshop Literacy Movement Michael Mohammed Ahmad.<\/p>\n

Joseph\u2019s memoir will be \u2018a rallying cry and a love letter to women who have had to start all over again\u2019, said the publisher. \u2018At 33 years old, Sheree Joseph found herself standing in the ruins of a future she thought she\u2019d have: no partner, no children, no neat timeline. Instead, a pandemic, profound grief and the unsettling realisation that everything she\u2019d been told to want \u2013 marriage, motherhood, security \u2013 might not arrive. Or, if it did, that it wouldn\u2019t look like anything she\u2019d imagined.\u2019<\/p>\n

Living on the unceded lands of the Wallumedegal and Darug peoples in Sydney\u2019s North West, Joseph is an\u00a0 Arab-Australian writer and the former managing editor of The Vocal. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, ABC, SBS, Overland, Russh, Junkee, the Lifted Brow and the Everywoman; her fiction has been published in Sweatshop Women (2020) and Love (2025).<\/p>\n

Pantera publishing director Lex Hirst said, \u2018Sheree Joseph is one of those once-in-a-lifetime voices to encounter; she somehow manages to clarify the complexity of this moment while also being gloriously true to her own singular experience. Juicy is a tender, personal work of art that makes you want to laugh-cry and live with wild abandon, and I can\u2019t wait to share it.\u2019<\/p>\n

Joesph said, \u2018With this story, I had one singular goal: to write the book I wish someone had handed me during my darkest days. It\u2019s an offering to those who came before me and to anyone standing on a similar precipice. It\u2019s the baby I didn\u2019t get to have and the legacy that will live on beyond me.\u2019<\/p>\n

Pantera plans to release Juicy\u00a0in late 2026.<\/p>\n

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Category: Local\u00a0news<\/a> Rights\u00a0and\u00a0acquisitions<\/a> <\/p>\n

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