Local
author Sandra Novack will be at After-Words books on September 15, 2011 from 6:30
p.m. reading from and signing copies of her book Everyone But You. Wine reception to follow.
Sandra
Novack has earned great acclaim with her short fiction, which has appeared in
more than thirty literary venues, including The Gettysburg
Review, Gulf Coast, and The Iowa Review.
Now, in this new collection of stories, she further demonstrates her mastery of
the form while exploring a universal theme: the desire for connection.
In “Cerulean Skies,” a wife must deal with her husband’s artistic calling while reexamining the loss of her own creative passion. A young woman is forced to confront the truth of her past, and its affect on her present love life, when she inherits her late dad’s possessions in “My Father’s Mahogany Leg.” In “Memphis” a man walks a delicate line between caring for his schizophrenic brother and keeping his new marriage afloat. “The Thin Border Between Here and Disaster” finds two married college professors faced with the fallout from their divorce, and a boy wrestles with his faith after the death of his mother in “Morty, El Morto.”
Fierce, sexual, and contentious, these moving tales place Sandra Novack’s prodigious talent on full display. Everyone but You illuminates the common truths behind some of the most profound moments in our lives.
In “Cerulean Skies,” a wife must deal with her husband’s artistic calling while reexamining the loss of her own creative passion. A young woman is forced to confront the truth of her past, and its affect on her present love life, when she inherits her late dad’s possessions in “My Father’s Mahogany Leg.” In “Memphis” a man walks a delicate line between caring for his schizophrenic brother and keeping his new marriage afloat. “The Thin Border Between Here and Disaster” finds two married college professors faced with the fallout from their divorce, and a boy wrestles with his faith after the death of his mother in “Morty, El Morto.”
Fierce, sexual, and contentious, these moving tales place Sandra Novack’s prodigious talent on full display. Everyone but You illuminates the common truths behind some of the most profound moments in our lives.
Sandra
Novack’s fiction has appeared in The Iowa
Review, The Gettysburg Review, Gulf Coast,
and Mississippi Review, among other publications. She has been nominated
for the Pushcart Prize three times, and holds an MFA from Vermont College.
She is the author of the novel Precious. Novack currently lives in Chicago, Illinois with
her husband, Phil, and many animals.
