About In My Father’s Country: An Afghan Woman Defies Her Fate Hardcover: 352 pages Publisher: Crown (April 24, 2012) In Afghanistan, there is a Pashtun saying known by every woman and by every girl: “A woman should leave her house only twice in her life: once as a bride to go to her husband’s house, and once […]
Christine W. Hartmann, author of So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love, on tour November/December 2011
About So Far Away: A Daughter’s Memoir of Life, Loss, and Love Paperback: 224 pages Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press (November 15, 2011) Christine Hartmann’s mother valued control above all else, yet one event appeared beyond her command: the timing of her own death. Not to be denied there either, two decades in advance Irmgard Hartmann chose the […]
Jane and Robert Rave, authors of Conversations and Cosmopolitans, on tour November 2011
About Conversations and Cosmopolitans: Awkward Moments, Mixed Drinks, and How a Mother and Son Finally Shared Who They Really Are: Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffin (November 8, 2011) After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert Rave finally found the resolve to mail a letter to his parents informing […]
Donia Bijan, author of Maman’s Homesick Pie, on tour October/November 2011
About Maman’s Homesick Pie: A Persian Heart in an American Kitchen: Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Algonquin Books (October 11, 2011) For Donia Bijan’s family, food has been the language they use to tell their stories and to communicate their love. In 1978, when the Islamic revolution in Iran threatened their safety, they fled to California’s Bay Area, […]
Book Club of the Month Contest for July 2011
We have FOUR fantastic books in our July Book Club of the Month Contest! _____________________________________________________________________ Immigrant life, father/son relationships, and the evolution of an unlikely writer Book Clubs will find all that and so much more to discuss in Thoughts Without Cigarettes by Oscar Hijuelos! Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos has won multiple awards for his […]
Donna M. Johnson, author of Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir, on tour October 2011
About Holy Ghost Girl: A Memoir Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (October 13, 2011) Donna Johnson’s remarkable story of being raised under the biggest gospel tent in the world, by David Terrell, one of the most famous evangelical ministers of the 1960s and 70s. Holy Ghost Girl is a compassionate, humorous exploration of faith, betrayal, […]
Elisabeth Eaves, author of Wanderlust, on tour June/July 2011
About Wanderlust: A Love Affair with Five Continents Paperback: 304 pages Publisher: Seal Press (June 7, 2011) Spanning 15 years of travel, beginning when she is a sophomore in college, Wanderlust documents Elisabeth Eaves’s insatiable hunger for the rush of the unfamiliar and the experience of encountering new people and cultures. Young and independent, she […]
Ned Zeman, author of The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness, on tour August 2011
About The Rules of the Tunnel: My Brief Period of Madness Hardcover: 288 pages Publisher: Gotham (August 4, 2011) A journalist faces his toughest assignment yet: profiling himself. Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and the quest to get back […]
Margaret Robison, author of The Long Journey Home, on tour June 2011
About The Long Journey Home Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Spiegel & Grau (May 17, 2011) First introduced to the world in her sons’ now-classic memoirs—Augusten Burroughs’s Running with Scissors and John Elder Robison’s Look Me in the Eye—Margaret Robison now tells her own haunting and lyrical story. A poet and teacher by profession, Robison describes her Southern […]
Lee Kravitz, author of Unfinished Business, on tour May/June 2011
About Unfinished Business: One Man’s Extraordinary Year of Trying to Do the Right Things Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Bloomsbury USA (May 24, 2011) After losing his job, Lee Kravitz – a man who had always worked too hard, too long, and too intensely – took stock of his life and realized just how disconnected he […]