Heads Up! Author at Powell's Book Store 3/17: "The Book of Dahlia"

[Radio_Lady]

New in March from Simon & Schuster

The Debut Novel from the Author of the Critically Acclaimed Short Story Collection How This Night Is Different



THE BOOK OF DAHLIA

A Novel

by Elisa Albert

She will be signing and speaking on Monday, March 17th @ 7:30pm at Powell's Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Tel: [phone]

For more information, please use this link:
http://www.powells.com/biblio/9781135830564

Early reviews:

“Elisa Albert creates an antihero whose spunky candor reminds us that attitude—even a bad one—is everything.” —Marie Claire

“Hilarious and heartbreaking…Albert’s superb first novel delivers Dahlia’s laissez-faire attitude toward other people and lack of ambition with such exactness as to strip them of cliché and make them grimly vivid…her brilliant style makes the novel’s central question—should we mourn a wasted life?—shockingly poignant.”—Publishers Weekly, (starred review)

"Elisa Albert has the unique gift of making bedmates out of humor and heartbreak. THE BOOK OF DAHLIA is wonderful." —Gary Shteyngart, author of Absurdistan

“Always compelling.” —Booklist

“Irreverent and witty, THE BOOK OF DAHLIA is perfectly executed…Dahlia is flawed and funny and caustic, consumed with all that is wrong in her world. It’s that willingness to really feel that makes her a perfect heroine, vulnerable and invulnerable at the very same time.”
—Bookpage

“This is not a gentle book, but it is an authentic and important one. Highly recommended for all serious fiction collections.” —Library Journal (starred review)

In THE BOOK OF DAHLIA (Free Press 2008), a fearless debut novel that is as outrageously funny as it is heartrending, Elisa Albert conjures Dahlia Finger, an unforgettable anti-heroine. Dahlia is a twenty-nine year old cynic, as smart as she is sarcastic, who spends her days smoking pot, watching television, and wondering what she’s going to do with the rest of her life — until the day she is told that her life isn’t going to last much longer: she has cancer. Confronted with death, Dahlia must reckon with herself, revisiting her failures and regrets with brutal honesty and the blackest of humor, ultimately revealing an extreme and endearing vulnerability.

Having dealt with terminal illness in her own family, Albert contemplates how we, individually and as a society, cope with sickness and death, and THE BOOK OF DAHLIA is the “authentic, important” result (Library Journal, starred review).

Elisa Albert’s critically acclaimed short story collection How This Night Is Different earned her a reputation as her generation’s “newest literary wunderkind” (American Jewish Life Magazine), a “witty, incisive” (Variety), “wonder-inducing” writer (Time Out New York). And, in Albert’s own mocking terms, “a lobotomized Philip Roth writing chick-lit”—a bit of the self-deprecation in her now-infamous fictional fan letter to the author to whom she is often compared. This brand of irreverent humor has won her legions of fans as well as praise for her “touching, mordantly funny, and superbly assured” prose (Kirkus Reviews).

Elisa Albert has written a courageous novel—intimate, raw, darkly comic and, above all, deeply felt. In March and April, Elisa Albert will be traveling to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Miami, Boston, and New York.

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[Radio_Lady]

1. RL's Book Review will be coming along after vacation ends...

Look for it in mid-March.

Cordially,

Radio Lady

[Radio_Lady]

2. Do you or anyone on this forum ever attend these book events?

Just looking for feedback at this time.

Thanks.

RL