Reading & Dialogue with
Jami Attenberg

• Monday, March 15
• 7 pm
• The Ink Spot
  

Jami Attenberg has written about sex, technology, design, graphic novels, books, television, and urban life in many and varied publications and online (see below). Now she has a new book, The Melting Season, and she'll be at The Ink Spot to read from it and to talk about writing, this book and generally.

About the book:
The Melting Season
Kirkus Reviews says: “An intelligent, moving portrait of a journey to self-awareness, with meaty characters and a refreshing absence of psychobabble.”

I was on the edge of something dire. All it took was a little push.  That was when I realized what needed to happen.
I can take it all and no one can stop me.
And there was nothing left to do afterward but get the hell out of town.
Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn’t hers. She’s just left the only home she’s ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. She’s also left behind her deepest, most shameful secrets-among them a dysfunctional family she’s never quite been able to escape and a marriage whose most intimate moments have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought.
  
Jami Attenberg is the author of the short story collection, Instant Love, and two novels, The Kept Man, and The Melting Season, which has just been released by Riverhead Books. She has contributed to a number of publications, including The New York Times, New York, Print, Salon, and Nylon, as well as the anthologies Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant: Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone and Love is a Four-Letter Word: True Stories of Breakups, Bad Relationships, and Broken Hearts. Visit her online at jamiattenberg.com

Copies of The Melting Season will be available for purchase at the reading.