About Arranged • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (May 15, 2012) Anne Blythe has a great life: a good job, close friends, and a potential book deal for her first novel. When it comes to finding someone to share her life with, however, she just can’t seem to get it right. When […]
Karen Thompson Walker, author of The Age of Miracles, on tour June and July 2012
About The Age of Miracles Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Random House “It still amazes me how little we really knew. . . . Maybe everything that happened to me and my family had nothing at all to do with the slowing. It’s possible, I guess. But I doubt it. I doubt it very much.” On a […]
Susan Vreeland, author of Clara and Mr. Tiffany, on tour May/June 2012
About Clara and Mr. Tiffany Paperback: 448 pages Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition (March 20, 2012) It’s 1893, and at the Chicago World’s Fair, Louis Comfort Tiffany makes his debut with a luminous exhibition of innovative stained-glass windows that he hopes will earn him a place on the international artistic stage. But behind the scenes […]
Elizabeth Percer, author of An Uncommon Education, on tour May 2012
About An Uncommon Education • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper (May 1, 2012) A young woman tries to save three people she loves in this elegant and remarkably insightful coming-of-age debut. Afraid of losing her parents at a young age—her father with his weak heart, her deeply depressed mother—Naomi Feinstein prepared single-mindedly for a […]
Kate Klise, author of In the Bag, on tour May 2012
About In the Bag • Paperback: 320 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (May 1, 2012) A European vacation. A luggage mix-up. A note from a secret admirer. Meet two single parents who think they’re too busy to date. And two teenagers who can’t stop writing flirty emails. This is a tale of connections—missed and […]
Jeet Thayil, author of Narcopolis, on tour April 2012
About Narcopolis • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (April 12, 2012) A fantastical portrait of the beautiful and damned residents of an opium den and brothel in the underworld of Bombay. Bombay, which obliterated its own history by changing its name and surgically altering its face, is the hero or heroin of this story… […]
Doug Magee, author of Darkness All Around, on tour June/July 2012
About Darkness All Around Touchstone, June 2012 Trade Paperback, 352 pages When there’s DARKNESS ALL AROUND . . . some memories are best forgotten Within the span of one harrowing week, Risa’s alcoholic husband, Sean, disappears, and her best friend, Carol, is brutally murdered. Eleven years later, Risa has seemingly put her life back together […]
Steve Wiegenstein, author of Slant of Light, on tour May/June 2012
About Slant of Light: A Novel of Utopian Dreams and Civil War • Trade Paperback: 305 pages • Publisher: Blank Slate Press (April, 2012) With the nation moving toward Civil War, James Turner, a charming, impulsive writer and lecturer, Charlotte, his down-to-earth bride, and Cabot, an idealistic Harvard-educated abolitionist, are drawn together in a social experiment deep in […]
Gary Buslik, author of Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls, on tour April/May 2012
About Akhmed and the Atomic Matzo Balls Paperback: 370 pages Publisher: Travelers’ Tales/Solas House (March 27, 2012) Iranian president Akhmed teams up with the leaders of Venezuela and Cuba and their American intelligence agents to smuggle radioactive matzo balls into Miami Beach. But intelligence being as slippery a concept to these nincompoops as chicken fat […]
Angela Davis-Gardner, author of Butterfly’s Child, on tour April 2012
About Butterfly’s Child Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback (April 10, 2012) When three-year-old Benji is plucked from the security of his home in Nagasaki to live with his American father, Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton, and stepmother, Kate, on their farm in Illinois, the family conceals Benji’s true identity as a child born from a […]