About Marriage Confidential • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (June 5, 2012) With bracing candor, Marriage Confidential take us inside a world where romantic ideas have given way to a “post-romantic” mood and a fair number of marriages end up “semi-happy.” It’s a world where the husbands of “workhorse wives” pursue the Having […]
Priscilla Gilman, author of The Anti-Romantic Child, on tour April/May 2012
About The Anti-Romantic Child • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 24, 2012) Priscilla Gilman, a teacher of romantic poetry who embraced Wordsworth’s vision of childhood’s spontaneous wonder, eagerly anticipated the birth of her first child, certain that he would come “trailing clouds of glory.” But as Benjamin grew, his remarkable precocity was […]
Loung Ung, author of Lulu in the Sky, on tour April/May 2012
To celebrate this release, the first two memoirs in Loung Ung’s trilogy, the bestseller First They Killed My Father and the continuing story in Lucky Child, will also be on tour. About Lulu in the Sky • Paperback: 368 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (April 17, 2012) Concluding the trilogy that started with her bestselling […]
Linda Campanella, author of When All That’s Left of Me is Love, on tour April 2012
About When All That’s Left of Me is Love • Paperback: 232 pages • Publisher: Tate Publishing (August 2, 2011) In her poignant memoir, Linda Campanella offers readers an intimate look inside her family and her heart as she relives and reconstructs her last year with her terminally ill mother and, in the process, comes […]
Christopher Benfey, author of Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay, on tour March/April 2012
About Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: The Penguin Press (March 15, 2012) An incandescent journey to unearth the beginnings of American art. An unforgettable voyage across the reaches of America and the depths of memory, Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay tells the story of America’s artistic birth. […]
Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, author of The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, on tour March/April 2012
About The Dressmaker of Khair Khana • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (March 20, 2012) Kamila Sidiqi’s life changed overnight when the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. After her father and brother were forced to flee, she became the sole breadwinner for her five siblings. Banned from school, confined to her home, and […]
Rachel Lloyd, author of Girls Like Us, on tour March 2012
About Girls Like Us • Paperback: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Perennial (February 28, 2012) During her teens, Rachel Lloyd ended up a victim of commercial sexual exploitation. With time, through incredible resilience, and with the help of a local church community, she finally broke free of her pimp and her past and devoted herself […]
Heather Poole, author of Cruising Attitude, on tour March 2012
About Cruising Attitude • Paperback: 272 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Original edition (March 6, 2012) Flying the not-so-friendly skies… In her more than fifteen years as an airline flight attendant, Heather Poole has seen it all. She’s witnessed all manner of bad behavior at 35,000 feet and knows what it takes for a […]
Tracey Jackson, author of Between a Rock and a Hot Place, on tour February/March 2012
About Between a Rock and a Hot Place • Paperback: 304 pages • Publisher: Harper Paperbacks (February 21, 2012) As she approached her fiftieth birthday, Tracey Jackson found herself bombarded by a catchphrase on everyone’s lips: “Fifty is the new thirty.” With a comedy writer’s training and a screenwriter’s eye for detail, Jackson skewers that […]
Ree Drummond, author of The Pioneer Woman, on tour February/March 2012
About The Pioneer Woman • Paperback: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (February 14, 2011) “That’s when I saw him—the cowboy—across the smoky room.” I’ll never forget that night. It was like a romance novel, an old Broadway musical, and a John Wayne western rolled into one. Out for a quick drink with friends, I […]