Record Lows (Pre-Order Jan 5th 2027)

Record Lows by CJ Green (Pre-Order Jan 5th 2027)

A missing man. A family full of secrets. And a historic blizzard bearing down on them.

It’s 1977 in Oneira, New York, and the snow is beginning to fall.

Harmon Pond, editor of the struggling local newspaper, is drowning in debt when the mysterious creditor who has been secretly keeping his paper afloat suddenly disappears. For Harmon, the disappearance could be a stroke of luck—or a catastrophe. His ambitious daughter, Teresa, sees something else: the story that could finally make her career.

But Harmon’s wife, Pauline, sees the missing man as a reminder of a past she has spent decades trying to forget. As old memories and buried secrets begin to surface, the entire Pond family becomes consumed by the mystery.

No one notices Teresa’s younger sister Fran sneaking out at night, or that the youngest Pond, Lonnie, is taking increasingly dangerous risks of his own.

As the search for the missing man intensifies, the blizzard grows into one of the worst storms in American history. Trapped by the snow and forced to confront the secrets they've kept from one another, the Ponds must reckon with what they have lost—and whether they can find their way back to each other before it's too late.

Set against the devastating Buffalo Blizzard of 1977, Record Lows is an intimate and sweeping family drama wrapped in a gripping missing-person mystery. CJ Green's dazzling debut explores family secrets, generational trauma, ambition, and the complicated ways the past refuses to stay buried.