NEW ORLEANS – Blue Cypress Books presents author Jami Attenberg on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 4:30 p.m. Ms. Attenberg will be in conversation with writer Patricia Lockwood. They will discuss Ms. Attenberg’s upcoming novel, “A Reason to See You Again.” Following the discussion Ms. Attenberg will sign copies of her books. This will be Patricia Lockwood’s first event in New Orleans!
Event will include a musical performance by Never Ever. Curated wine and charcuterie will be available for sale during the event.
Tickets are required for this event. Tickets are $31 each and include a signed copy of Ms. Attenberg’s book. Tickets may be purchased through this link. The event will be held at Piehxle, address will be sent to ticket holders only. Additional copies of Ms. Attenberg’s book, “A Reason to See You Again” (Ecco Press, 2024) may be purchased before or during the event. More about the event may be found here.
From New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg comes a dazzling novel of family, following a troubled mother and her two daughters over 40 years and through a swiftly changing American landscape as they seek lives they can fully claim as their own.
A Reason to See You Again: A Novel: The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. Triggered by the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s lives soon take a dramatic turn.
Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her.
But they each learn in different ways that running from the past can’t save you—and then must make life-altering decisions about what they want their family to be and what they need to move forward.
Beginning in the 1970s and spanning forty years, A Reason to See You Again takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through motherhood, the American workforce, the tech industry, the self-help movement, inherited trauma, the ever-evolving ways we communicate with one another, and the many unexpected forms that love can take.
Jami Attenberg is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up; a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You; and, most recently, 1000 Words: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round. She is the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project, and maintains the popular Craft Talk newsletter year-round. Her work has been published in sixteen languages. She lives in New Orleans. More info here.
Patricia Lockwood is the author of four books, including the 2021 novel “No One Is Talking About This,” an international bestseller, finalist for the Booker Prize and the Women’s Prize for Fiction, and translated into 30 languages. Her 2017 memoir “Priestdaddy” won the Thurber Prize for American Humor and was named one of the Guardian’s 100 best books of the 21st century. She also has two poetry collections, “Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals”(2014) and “Balloon Pop Outlaw Black” (2012). Lockwood’s work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the London Review of Books, where she is a contributing editor. She lives in Savannah, Georgia.
Blue Cypress Books is a local, woman-owned, New Orleans bookstore and has been a warm and welcoming place to find high-quality used and new books since 2008. BCB is an inclusive and welcoming place where we speak our minds and invite open conversations. They are proud members of the American Booksellers Association and the Southern Independent Booksellers Association, and are consistently rated as a top bookstore in the city. More info here.
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