Leni Zumas: Tonight at Malaprop's

Saturday, May 29, 2010

Tonight at Malaprop's

I'll be reading with the fantastic Travis Nichols, whose novel Off We Go into the Wild Blue Yonder just came out from Coffeehouse Press. He's the real deal--you shouldn't miss him!

May 29 @ 7PM
Malaprop's Bookstore, Asheville, NC

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"Zumas has already proven herself a remarkable maker of short stories. Now she has sustained and heightened the exhilaration of her writing in this striking novel."

—Sam Lipsyte, The Ask

"Leni Zumas's visceral debut novel is a darkly funny and disturbing rager. Weaving a dreamlike coming-of-age story with the melancholic tale of a rock band self-destructing and a family's loss, Zumas's deft language careens through the lives of her characters with killer sentence after killer sentence. It's a crushing, dazzling performance."

—Kevin Sampsell, A Common Pornography

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It's a rare writer who can bring us closer to people we might cross the street to avoid.

—L.A. Weekly

Zumas gives socially awkward, mysteriously gifted and self-destructive outcasts spellbinding, unflinching voice in her debut collection. ... It’s a powerful, irresistible collection.

—Publishers Weekly

Almost no one does the right thing—or, at least, the expected thing—in these stories. You may find them funny (there's just enough humor to keep them upbeat of Carson McCullers), but there's also a very good chance they will unzip you, unsettle you. ... Synapses snap, crackle and pop while you're reading this strange collection.

—The Los Angeles Times

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