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Author Event! Patty Friedmann and Annette Harper

Event Type: Adults
Age Group(s): Adults
Date: 9/26/2017
Start Time: 7:00 PM
End Time: 8:30 PM
Description:
 Two local authors – Patty Friedmann and M.A. Harper – will discuss and sign copies of their new books at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Sept. 26, at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon, Metairie.

This event is free of charge and is open to the public.

Organized Panic by Patty Friedmann

Sister is set against brother, born secular humanist against later-in-life evangelical Christian. In the end, Cesca and Ronald will have to face each other down, and each will have to try to prove the other is not above board. The sibling squabble underscores a serious struggle, certainly, but this is another tale told in the humorous Friedmann voice–and set in the New Orleans only a native would know. The manuscript took second place in the Faulkner-Wisdom competition.

Patty Friedmann is the author of the novels, No Takebacks, Taken Away, A Little Bit Ruined, Side Effects, Secondhand Smoke, Eleanor Rushing, and Odds, The Exact Image of Mother, Too Smart to Be Rich. Too Jewish came out in digital format in 2010 and was a perennial bestseller for four years. Her novels have been featured in Discover Great New Writers, Original Voices, and BookSense 76 selections. In 2011, Taken Away was a finalist for Book of the Year for small presses. In 2001–2002, she was writer-in-residence at Tulane University. Friedmann’s short stories have appeared in Horn Gallery, Short Story, LaLit, Xavier Review, Life in the Wake, New Orleans Noir, and elsewhere; and she has had essays in Oxford American, Speakeasy, and New Orleans Review.

Things That Can Fall by M. A. Harper

Neil Overcash wants Broadway stardom. Stage manager Libby Papalekas wants Neil Overcash. Ramon wants to be a girl. Mickey and A.P. have no idea what they want, except each other. Welcome to Lower Manhattan, where it's 1975 with disco barely born, AIDS yet unknown, and violent crime rampant. These penniless young bohemians impress themselves by merely surviving the place. Danger can be an aphrodisiac. Until it's not.

M. A. Harper's own term for her genre is "Supernatural Lite", because she finds everyday life inexplicable. Her novels have been spotlighted via Barnes & Noble's Discover Great New Writers program, the BookSense '76 List, TIME magazine, and the 2015 Digital Book Awards where she was named as one of five finalists for Adult Fiction. She doesn't write about vampires or werewolves because she doesn't know any, but has an ongoing relationship with several deceased people whom she misses very much.

For more information regarding this presentation, contact Chris Smith, Manager of Adult Programming for the library, at 504-889-8143 or wcsmith@jefferson.lib.la.us.

Library: East Bank Regional Library    Map
Location: Jefferson & Napoleon Rooms
Contact: Chris Smith
Contact Number: 504-889-8143
Presenter: Chris Smith