About Six Days in Leningrad • Paperback: 432 pages • Publisher: HarperCollins (September 20, 2016) From the author of the celebrated, internationally bestselling The Bronze Horseman saga comes a glimpse into the private life of its much loved creator, and the real story behind the epic novels. Paullina Simons gives us a work of non-fiction […]
Cathi Hanauer, author of The Bitch is Back, on tour September/October 2016
About The Bitch is Back • Hardcover: 368 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (September 27, 2016) More than a decade after the New York Times bestselling anthology The Bitch in the House spoke up loud and clear for a generation of young women, nine of the original contributors are back—along with sixteen captivating new voices—sharing […]
Elizabeth Lesser, author of Marrow, on tour September/October 2016
About Marrow • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Wave (September 20, 2016) The author of the New York Times bestseller Broken Open returns with a visceral and profound memoir of two sisters who, in the face of a bone marrow transplant—one the donor and one the recipient—begin a quest for acceptance, authenticity, and most […]
Lisa Fenn, author of Carry On, on tour August/September 2016
About Carry On • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Wave (August 16, 2016) In the spirit of The Blind Side comes a deeply moving memoir about the unexpected bonds that wouldtransform three lives. Lisa Fenn produced human-interest features for ESPN for over a decade, but one particular story came into her life and never […]
Jenny Jaeckel, author of Spot 12: Five Months in the Neonatal ICU, on tour October 2016
About Spot 12: Five Months in the Neonatal ICU Spot 12 delivers the gritty details of a new mother and her newborn daughter, Asa, during a five-month stay in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in this visually gripping graphic memoir by Jenny Jaeckel. A routine prenatal exam reveals a dangerous problem, and Jaeckel and her […]
Claire Hoffman, author of Greetings From Utopia Park, on tour June/July 2016
About Greetings From Utopia Park • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper (June 7, 2016) In this engrossing memoir, Claire Hoffman recounts the remarkable years she spent growing up in an increasingly isolated meditation community in the American heartland. When Claire Hoffman’s alcoholic father abandons his family, his struggling wife, Liz, tells five-year-old Claire and […]
Christine Hale, author of A PIECE OF SKY, A GRAIN OF RICE, on tour August 2016
About A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice: A Memoir in Four Meditations Paperback: 274 pages Publisher: Apprentice House (July 1, 2016) Christine Hale grew up amid abuse, depression, dysfunction, alienation and isolation—her mother’s, but also, because her view was the lens that controlled the family—her own, her father’s and her two sisters’. She became a […]
Nora McInerny Purmort, author of It’s Okay to Laugh, on tour May/June 2016
About It’s Okay to Laugh • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Dey Street Books (May 24, 2016) comedy = tragedy + time/rosé Twenty-seven-year-old Nora McInerny Purmort bounced from boyfriend to dopey “boyfriend” until she met Aaron—a charismatic art director and comic-book nerd who once made Nora laugh so hard she pulled a muscle. When Aaron […]
Betsy Lerner, author of The Bridge Ladies, on tour May 2016
About The Bridge Ladies • Hardcover: 320 pages • Publisher: Harper Wave (May 3, 2016) A fifty-year-old Bridge game provides an unexpected way to cross the generational divide between a daughter and her mother. Betsy Lerner takes us on a powerfully personal literary journey, where we learn a little about Bridge and a lot about […]
Mary Elizabeth Williams, author of A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles, on tour April/May 2016
About A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles • Hardcover: 304 pages • Publisher: National Geographic; 1 edition (April 26, 2016) A wry, witty account of what it is like to face death—and be restored to life. After being diagnosed in her early 40s with metastatic melanoma—a “rapidly fatal” form of cancer—journalist and mother of two […]