Please join us at the Flying Pig Bookstore in Shelburne (next to The Bearded Frog Restaurant) Thursday September 18th at 7 pm for an event with authors David Kalish and Rebecca Coffey, celebrating their darkly comic novels, *The Opposite of Everything* and *Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story*.
David Kalish is a career editor and reporter for the Associated Press. *The Opposite of Everything* was named Top Literary Novel in the Somerset Fiction Awards.
Rebecca Coffey is a science journalist and humorist. Booklist called *Hysterical* "an avidly researched, shrewd, and unnerving first novel" that is "complexly entertaining, sexually dramatic, [and] acidly funny."
This promises to be an entertaining evening!
The event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP by calling 985-3999 or emailing flyingpigevents@gmail.com
A little more about the books:
*The Opposite of Everything*: When Brooklyn journalist Daniel Plotnick learns he has cancer, his fortunes fall faster than you can say Ten Plagues of Egypt. His wife can't cope, his marriage ends in a showdown with police, and his father accidentally pushes him off the George Washington Bridge.
Plotnick miraculously survives his terrifying plunge, and comes up with a plan to turn his life around: he'll do the opposite of everything he did before.
In the darkly comedic tradition of Philip Roth, David Kalish's *The Opposite of Everything* is a funny tale about cancer and a love story about divorce.
*Hysterical: *Imagine growing up gay in a household where your world-renowned father calls lesbianism a gateway to mental illness. And it is always, he said, caused by the father and curable by analysis. Now imagine that he analyzes you. Liberally salted with the Jewish humor that may have saved her sanity, *Hysterical: Anna Freud's Story* is the fact-based fictional autobiography of Sigmund Freud's funniest daughter.
Elizabeth Bluemle
Bookseller, The Flying Pig Bookstore www.flyingpigbooks.com
Blogger www.publishersweekly.com/blogs/shelftalker.
Author www.elizabethbluemle.com
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