Award-winning novelist Casey Plett (Little Fish) returns with a poignant suite of stories that center transgender women. We are thrilled to welcome her, along with Jeanne Thornton to celebrate the launch.
Casey Plett's 2018 novel Little Fish won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, A Dream of a Woman, is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection A Safe Girl to Love. Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, A Dream of a Woman finds quiet truths in prairie high-rises and New York warehouses, in freezing Canadian winters and drizzly Oregon days.
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September 26thJoin us at Elizabeth Street Garden this Sunday, September 12th, at 4 p.m. The Garden is located in Nolita on Elizabeth Street, between Spring and Prince. You can submit your poetry to this exciting bi-weekly series by sending your work to art@elizabethstreetgarden.com. This week's theme will be announced on Sept 12th.
Elizabeth Street Garden is a non-profit, communiy garden, open 7 days a week (weather permitting), staffed by volunteers. Find out how you can help preserve and protect this extraordinary space from destruction at www.elizabethstreetgarden.com. ESG is located on Elizabeth Street, between Prince Street and Spring Street in Nolita.
Twelve-year-old Silas is awoken in the dead of night by three horsemen who arrive unannounced to take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared, and alone, except for the presence of his companion, Mittenwool . . . who happens to be a ghost. But when a pony shows up at his door, Silas knows what he has to do. He will set out on a perilous journey across a vast American landscape to find his father—a journey that will ultimately connect him with his past and future, and the unfathomable mysteries of the world around him.
We're incredibly excited to celebrate the launch of a new Middle Grade graphic novel series, City of Dragons, with co-creators Jaimal Yogis and Vivian Truong, hosted by Yvonne Brooks. This virtual event will include a reading, Q and A, plus kids and adults can learn how to draw characters from the series.
In Book 1, The Awakening Storm, Grace and her friends must protect a newly hatched dragon from mysterious evildoers.
When Grace moves to Hong Kong with her mom and new stepdad, her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school. But when a mysterious old woman gifts her a dragon egg during a field trip, Grace discovers that the wonderful stories of dragons she heard when she was a young girl might actually be real--especially when the egg hatches overnight.
The dragon has immense powers that Grace has yet to understand. And that puts them both in danger from mysterious forces intent on abusing the dragon's power. Now it's up to Grace and her school friends to uncover the sinister plot threatening the entire city!
October 4thIn her second novel, Russian-born Alina Bronsky gives readers a moving portrait of the devious limits of the will to survive. The narrator of this rollicking family saga is the outrageously mischevious Rosa Achmetowna, whom The Millions calls "one of the most fascinating women in the world." Told with sly humor and an anthropologist’s eye for detail, The Hottest Dishes of the Tartar Cuisine is the story of three unforgettable women whose destinies are tangled up in a family dynamic that is at turns hilarious and tragic.
