About Body Leaping Backward • Hardcover: 240 pages • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (July 16, 2019) The “mesmerizing . . . daring and important”* story of a risk-taking girlhood spent in a working-class prison town —Andre Dubus III For Maureen Stanton’s proper Catholic mother, the town’s maximum security prison was a way to keep her seven children in line (“If you don’t […]
Sheri Salata, author of The Beautiful No, on tour August 2019
About The Beautiful No • Hardcover: 288 pages • Publisher: Harper Wave (June 4, 2019) “Thursday morning. One hundred pounds overweight, no man in sight, and rounding the bend to 57 years old—a full-blown catastrophe.” What happens when you realize you’ve had the career of your dreams, but you don’t have the life of your dreams? This was […]
Jeanne McCulloch, author of All Happy Families, on tour June 2019
About All Happy Families • Paperback: 256 pages • Publisher: Harper Wave; Reprint edition (June 4, 2019) The Glass Castle meets The Nest in this stunning debut, an intimate family memoir that gracefully brings us behind the dappled beachfront vista of privilege, to reveal the inner lives of two wonderfully colorful, unforgettable families. On a mid-August weekend, two families assemble […]
Don Cummings, author of Bent But Not Broken, on tour May 2019
About Bent But Not Broken • Paperback: 214 pages • Publisher: Heliotrope Books LLC (March 15, 2019) Bent But Not Broken is an unflinchingly honest memoir about the onset of Peyronie’s disease, a painful and sexually limiting condition that is estimated to affect more than 5% of the worldwide adult male population. Don Cummings writes humorously about the […]
Anne Edelstein, author of Lifesaving for Beginners, on tour September/October 2018
About Lifesaving for Beginners • Paperback: 225 pages • Publisher: Red Hen Press (November 7, 2017) When Anne Edelstein was forty-two, her mother, a capable swimmer in good health, drowned while snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. Caring for two small children of her own, Anne suddenly found herself grieving not only for her emotionally distant mother […]
Mohammed Al Samawi, author of The Fox Hunt, on tour April 2018
About The Fox Hunt • Hardcover: 336 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (April 10, 2018) A young man’s moving story of war, friendship, and hope in which he recounts his harrowing escape from a brutal civil war in Yemen with the help of a daring plan engineered on social media by a small group of interfaith activists […]
Piper Weiss, author of You All Grow Up and Leave Me, on tour April 2018
About You All Grow Up and Leave Me • Hardcover: 352 pages • Publisher: William Morrow (April 10, 2018) “Unflinching, rich and revelatory.”—MEGAN ABBOTT “Equal Parts true-crime investigation and self-reflection . . . Bracingly honest and extremely discomfiting, this book is like a riveting episode of Law & Order: SVU set at a Manhattan prep school with the U.S. […]
Anne Heffron, author of YOU DON’T LOOK ADOPTED, on tour January 2018
About You Don’t Look Adopted Paperback: 164 pages Publisher: Running Water Press (February 5, 2017) When you take away the habits of your life, you get to the question of Who am I? And if you sit with that, you get to the question of How far am I willing to go to find the answers? If you are Anne Heffron, […]
Nina Willner, author of Forty Autumns, on tour August/September 2017
About Forty Autumns • Paperback: 416 pages • Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks; Reprint edition (August 15, 2017) In this illuminating and deeply moving memoir, a former American military intelligence officer goes beyond traditional Cold War espionage tales to tell the true story of her family—of five women separated by the Iron Curtain for more than forty years, […]
Jaimal Yogis, author of All Our Waves Are Water, on tour July 2017
About All Our Waves Are Water • Hardcover: 272 pages • Publisher: Harper Wave (July 4, 2017) In this meditative memoir—a compelling fusion of Barbarian Days and the journals of Thomas Merton—the author of Saltwater Buddha reflects on his “failing toward enlightenment,” his continued search to find meaning and a greater understanding of the Divine […]