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Marilyn Dahl, Book Editor at Shelf Awareness, recently sat down with Debra Monroe to discuss her new memoir, MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (University of Georgia Press/Crux Series; October 1, 2015). In this enlightening interview, which is posted in today’s Shelf Awareness, Debra touches upon a few of the topics that make MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION such an engrossing read. Boyfriends, careers, feminism, parenting — Debra discusses how these particular elements inform her writer’s life.
You can catch the entire interview here:
The City of Miami Beach has announced that in recognition of its Centennial celebration, it will launch a citywide book club reading experience titled, One Book, One City. Its very first selection will be Thane Rosenbaum’s latest novel, HOW SWEET IT IS!, a literary, comedic tale set in Miami Beach in the summer of 1972. A novelist, essayist and law professor living in New York, Rosenbaum was raised in Miami Beach and is arguably the city’s most critically acclaimed author/native son.
Mandel Vilar Press will create a special and elegant paperback edition of HOW SWEET IT IS! just for Miami Beach’s Centennial, which will be available by the end of September. Readers will have plenty of time to read the novel and prepare for all of the fun events that will be taking place in November around the novel.
Citywide programming includes:
Thane Rosenbaum will also discuss and sign copies of HOW SWEET IT IS! at the Miami Book Fair International on either the 21st or the 22nd of November.
Set during the historic and tumultuous year of 1972, HOW SWEET IT IS! follows the Posner family—two Holocaust survivors, Sophie and Jacob and their son, Adam—doing everything they can to avoid one another in a city with an infinite supply of colorful diversions. The book covers the antiwar movement, Watergate, sports (Super Bowl winning season, the Munich Olympics, and Muhammad Ali’s return to championship form), the rise of the counterculture, the desegregation of the south, the fading of the Jewish Mafia, the Rat Pack, and the wacky, poignant and hilarious gestalt of Miami in the 70s.
A Reader’s Guide for HOW SWEET IT IS! is available here .
Buzzfeed has gathered the best young adult books for the fall and created this outstanding list of “17 New YA Books That Will Make Your Heart Happy.” We’re happy they included Meagan Brothers’ new novel, WEIRD GIRL AND WHAT’S HIS NAME (Three Rooms Press; October 13, 2015).
This story follows two misfit BFFs, Rory and Lula, who’ve always confided in each other. But when Rory begins having an illegal affair with his older boss and Lula begins to question her sexual orientation, the structure they’ve built their friendship on is shaken. Readers who enjoy coming-of-age stories will enjoy this powerful novel.
You can check out the full list of 17 new YA novels you’ll want to cozy up with this fall over at Buzzfeed.com.
Here’s a great way to start your morning — a new essay by Debra Monroe about social class “jumping” and how strangely and comically lonely it can be. If you find this essay as painfully honest, witty, and true as we do, you’ll love her memoir, MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, which the University of Georgia Press will publish on October 1, 2015 (you can even pre-order it now!). In the words of Rosellen Brown, Debra’s memoir “raises a dozen potent questions about what has changed for a generation of women not so much disillusioned but unillusioned about what it means to ‘live like a man.’”
