About Summer at Tiffany Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Avon A (March 30, 2010) New York City, 1945. Marjorie Jacobson and her best friend, Marty Garrett, arrive fresh from the Kappa house at the University of Iowa hoping to find summer positions as shopgirls. Turned away from the top department stores, they miraculously find jobs as […]
Kerry Reichs, author of Leaving Unknown, on tour June 2010
About Leaving Unknown Sweetlips, Tennesse; Toad Suck, Arkansas; Okay, Oklahoma; Truth or Consequences, New Mexico: these are just a few of the towns Maeve Connelly passes through on her epic roadtrip to the less interestingly named Los Angeles, CA. But when Maeve’s beloved car Elsie breaks down outside of Unknown, Arizona, she is in for […]
Carlene Bauer, author of Not That Kind of Girl, on tour July 2010
About Not That Kind of Girl Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) Raised in evangelical churches that preached apocalypse now, Carlene Bauer grows up happy to oblige the God who presides over her New Jersey girlhood. But in high school and college, her intellectual and spiritual horizons widen, and she becomes skeptical […]
Emily Gray Tedrowe, author of Commuters, on tour July 2010
About Commuters • Paperback: 400 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 29, 2010) After losing her husband of many years, seventy-eight-year-old Winnie Easton has found love again with Jerry Trevis, a wealthy, elderly Chicago businessman; their decision, however, to buy one of the biggest houses in the small, upstate town of Hartfield, New York, ignites […]
Emma Larkin, author of Everything is Broken, on tour June 2010
About Everything is Broken • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press HC On May 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc, and leaving an official toll of 138,300 dead and missing. In the days that followed, the sheer scale of the disaster became apparent as information began […]
Christina Baker Kline, author of Bird in Hand, on tour July 2010
About Bird in Hand • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (June 29, 2010) The accident was just that — an accident. It was dark, it was raining, ALISON had two drinks in her, and the other car ran the stop sign. She just didn’t get out of the way fast enough. But now […]
Ilie Ruby, author of The Language of Trees, on tour July/August 2010
About The Language of Trees Paperback: 368 pages Publisher: Avon A (July 20, 2010) Devastated over the breakup of his marriage, Grant Shongo returns to his hometown of Canandaigua Lake, a little community where everyone knows everyone’s business, though they may pretend not to. Living in isolation at his family’s old cabin, Grant begins to wonder […]
Lynne Griffin, author of Sea Escape, on tour July 2010
About Sea Escape Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Simon & Schuster (July 6, 2010) Acclaimed novelist and nationally recognized family life expert Lynne Griffin returns with Sea Escape–an emotional, beautifully imagined story inspired by the author’s personal family letters about the ties that bind mothers and daughters. Laura Martinez is wedged in the middle place, grappling […]
David Vann, author of Legend of a Suicide, on tour May 2010
About Legend of a Suicide • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 16, 2010) In Legend of a Suicide, his heartbreaking semi-autobiographical debut story-collection, David Vann relates the story of a young man trying to come to terms with the guilt and pain of his father’s suicide. The wild outback of the author’s […]
A. Manette Mansay, author of Good Things I Wish You, on tour June/July 2010
About Good Things I Wish You Paperback: 272 pages Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 22, 2010) The acclaimed author of Vinegar Hill returns with a story of two unlikely romances—one historical, the other modern-day—separated by thousands of miles and well over a century. Battling feelings of loss and apathy in the wake of a painful divorce, […]