Spotlight: Tabitha, Stay Up

 

After a shattering disappointment, Tabitha must find new ways to get up—and stay up. 

In this sequel to Tabitha, Get Up, she faces a determined antagonist and a possible new love, or the return of what appeared to be lost love. She must save the world’s best bar, contend with diabolical twins and a persistent mystical vision, survive a former cowboy campground, refuse to count her blessings, and at last walk down the aisle again, although not in the way she anticipated. 

Tabitha continues her forays into philosophy—how to survive disaster, defy humiliation, and build a life where optimism may be renewed, whenever it needs to be renewed, which is by the minute.

**Can be read as a standalone**

Praise for Tabitha, Get Up:

"Riding herd, Upton wrangles a novel that writes itself and rights itself."

—Michael Martone, author of Plain Air: Sketches from Winesburg, Indiana

"Smart, funny...and a total joy!"

—Iris Smyles, author of Droll Tales

"It's Lee Upton's best, funniest, and most ingenious work of fiction yet."

—Brock Clarke, author of Who Are You, Calvin Bledsoe? 

Lee Upton is a multi-genre author who was named a semi-finalist for the 2026 Thurber Prize in American Humor Writing for her comic novel Tabitha, Get Up. A sequel, Tabitha, Stay Up, is forthcoming in September 2026. She is also the author of the literary mystery Wrongful (2025) and the dystopian thriller, The Withers, which published in June 2026. Her poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, Poetry, Agni, and in many other magazines as well as three editions of Best American Poetry. A volume of her new and selected poems is forthcoming in 2027 from Saturnalia Books. www.leeupton.com.

Visit Lee at her website and on Instagram.

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