If you’re free this Wednesday (Nov. 17) at 5pm, go check out UCI’s Author Series at the bookstore which features Andrew Winder and Susan Straight. The event is FREE and refreshments will be served!
From the UCI Bookstore website:
“Andrew Winer’s new novel, The Marriage Artist” is a tale of of a family dramatically reshaped by the quest for personal freedom in the face of inherited beliefs, public prejudices, and the unfathomable turns of history. It is at once a provocative snapshot of contemporary marriage, the recovery of a passion that history never recorded, and a fierce reminder of the way we enlist love in our perpetual search for meaning and permanence.
Andrew Winer is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction. his first novel, “The Color Midnight Made,” was a national bestseller. He has written for Hollywood and published essays on contemporary art. As a professor at UC Riverside he was awarded the 2009 Innovative Teaching Award by the Academy of Distinguished Teaching.
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Susan Straight new novel is about the forces that tear families apart and the ties that bind them together. Powerful and moving, “Take One Candle Light a Room” illuminates the intricacies of human connection and the ways in which we find a place for ourselves within our families and the world.
Susan Straight received the Gold Medal for Fiction from the San Francisco-based Commonwealth Club for her fifth novel, Highwire Moon. Susan is a critically acclaimed, well-rounded author who has written fiction works as well as two children’s books. Her awards include the prestigious Lannan Foundation Award in 1999 as well as a 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship.”
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