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A Life in Men is a terrific book, a tender
story of friendship, and a frank story of a young woman's adventures
with an assortment of oddly funny, violent, and quirky men who works
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::Audrey y Niffenegger, author of The Time Traveler's Wife
An epic tour de force
capturing a woman's entire life amid a world torn apart by terrorism
and alienation, and ultimately ... an exploration of what individual
fulfillment means in such a world, and how grief, identity,
sexuality, and responsibility intersect."
::Patrick Somerville, author of This Bright River and John
Payday, the executive manager.
The Slut Lullabies
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WATCH TRAILER
Gino Frangello's Slut Lullabies will seduce you" ::Vanity Fair
Slut Lullabies is beautiful, daring, triumphant. Gina' s writing is fearless and
original and kind and there simply aren't enough books like this."
::Stephen Elliott, The Adderall Diaries
Savvy, sexy, blunt stories that keeping inviting a reader in. Frangello' s voice
feels like a friend you've known for years, telling you stories with warmth and
insight."
::Alimee Bender, Willful Creatures and The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake
Gina Frangello is unafraid to look hard at the dark side of human nature, but
she writes with such compassion and humor that we came away from these fictions
with new insight into the strange world we all live in. You lift your head from
this book dazed and blinking in new light. These are jaw-dropping stories." ::Dan
Chaon, Await Your Reply
Slut Lullables is daring short fiction at its finest; it explores the full range
of modern
life - from love to sex to illness to family - with all the refinement and
frankness of Anaïs Nin. If you have
any question about the future of the short story, this beguiling collection is
its formidable answer."
::Joe Meno, The Great Perhaps
My Sister' s Continent
Books
Frangello is uncanny and mesmerizing in this smart, suspenseful psychosexual
drama
as she choreographs traumatic and even criminal family dynamics."
::Booklist, January 2006, Donna Seaman
A Freudian tale of a family's twisted past... weaving complex issues of
sexuality, AIDS and eating disorders." ::Chicago Magazine, December 2005,
Jennifer Tanaka
A refreshing rebuttal to the canard that feminism is humorless....." ::Chicago
Tribune, December 2005, Bill Savage
In this reworking of Freud's famous case study, a modern-day Dara exacts her
revenge, plunging the analyst-reader into a phantasmagoria of neurosis,
psychosis, and hysteria which defies resolution or cure. A chilling post-mortem
of the Freudian Century."
::Alex Shakar, Luminarium
In My Sister's Continent, Gina Frangello has added unusual and compelling
insights into feminist "hot button" topics-bulimia, incest, AIDS-steering them
off over-used, well-worn tracks and into new, sometimes treacherous territory."
::Cris Mazza, Somthing Wrong With Her and Is It Sexual Harrassment Yet?
Gina Frangello writes about sex, pyschology and sisterhood with a rare
sensitivity and tremendous wit. This is a delightful novel, full of rollicking
scenes and uncanny wisdom." ::Steve Almond, God Bless America
My Sister's Continent is brilliant and timely-readers who find themselves bored
and de-sensitized by the recent deluge of shock-value lit will be blindsided by
this truly disturbing and undeniably germane piece of work...[T]he power issues
at work between women and men and family today are bared three-dimensionally
here, and Frangello's only agenda is honesty. The results are stunning, and
readers will come away from this book changed." ::Don De Grazia, American Skin
A LIFE MEN EVENTS SCHEDULE
february
Thursday, February 7th: Chicago Release Party - 7:30pm
Women and Children First
Location: 5233 N Clark St Chicago, IL 60640
Monday, February 10th - 7pm
Ivy Bookstore Reading Series
with Jane Delury and Rob Roberge
Location: Artifact Coffee, 1500 Union Ave Baltimore, MD
Tuesday, February 11th: - 7pm
WORD
with Rob Roberge; Q&A by Caroline Leavitt
Location: 126 Franklin Street Brooklyn, NY 11222
Wednesday, February 12th: - 7pm
Brookline Booksmith
â#339;Matters of Love, Sex and Everything in Betweenâ?
with Jessica Keener and Mary Elizabeth Pope
Location: 279 Harvard St Brookline, MA 02446
Thursday, February 13th: - 7pm
Porter Square Books
with Steve Almond
Location: 25 White St. Cambridge, MA 02140
Sunday, February 16th: - 7pm
KGB Bar, emceed by Stephen Elliott
Sponsored by Nylon magazine
Location: 85 E 4th St, New York, NY
Monday, February 24th: - 7pm
Boswell Books
Location: 2559 N Downer Ave. Milwaukee WI 53211
Thursday, February 27th: - 8:30pm
offsite AWP event: RUMPUS BY THE SOUND
with Katie Crouch and Monica Drake
Comedy by: Derek Sheen
Music by: John Wesley Harding
Hosted by: Stephen Elliott and Zoà Ruiz
Location: The Spitfire, 2219 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA
march
Saturday, March 1st: - 6pm
The Project Room/AWP event
with Pam Houston and Melinda Moustakis
Location: 1315 E. Pine St., Seattle, WA 98122
Monday, March 3rd: - 7:30pm
Powell's
Q&A after the reading with Natalie Serber
Location: 1005 W Burnside St, Portland, OR 97209
Tuesday, March 11th: - 7pm
Prairie Lights Books
Algonquin Books event with Michael Parker
Location: 15 South Dubuque St. Iowa City, IA 52240
Saturday-Sunday, March 15th-16th:
Tucson Festival of Books
Location: University of Arizona Campus
3/15, 10:00 am to 11:00 am
Writing the Body: From Ecstasy to Distress
Integrated Learning Center Room 151
3/15, 11:30 am to 12:30 pm
From Fact to Fiction: Basing Stories on Real Events
Integrated Learning Center Room 150
also with Lacy Crawford and Kristina McMorris
Moderator: Dan Anderson
3/15, 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Love Over the Long Haul
UA BookStore
also with T. Greenwood and Jenny Offill
Moderator: Lydia Millet
3/16, 1:00-2:00 pm
Improbable Friendships
Student Union Tucson
with T. Greenwood, Kristina McMorris
Moderator: Charlie Buck
Sunday, March 30th: - 7pm
Sunday Salon Chicago reading series
Black Rock Pub & Kitchen
Location: 3614 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL
april
Sunday, April 6th - 7-9:30pm
The Make Out Room
with Joshua Mohr, Liza Monroy and Janis Cook Newman
comedy by Bucky Sinister
Location: 3225 22nd Street San Francisco, CA
Wednesday, April 9th - 7pm
Books Inc. in the Marina
with Kate Milliken with Q&A with Michelle Richmond
Location: 2251 Chestnut St, San Francisco, CA
Tuesday, April 15th: - 7pm
Book Soup
Location: 8818 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, 61944
Wednesday, April 16th: - 7:30
Warwick's
Location: 7812 Girard Ave, San Diego, CA 92037
Thursday, April 17th: - 6pm
Laguna Beach Books
Location: 1200 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Friday, April 18th: - 7:30
Book Show
Location: 1993 Blake Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90039
at NOMAD PRINT STUDIO/ART GALLERY
A night of irreverent readings also featuring Mike Faloon,
Taleen Kali, Rob Roberge & Matthew Specktor
"Original and fearless . . . A powerful portrait of human connection and
individual triumph."::People, 3.5 stars out of 4
"Powerful..ambitious...relentless a work of art."::The Boston Globe
"Ambitious, heartfelt."::NYLON
"A beautifully written, fiercely intelligent, and psychologically nuanced
portrayal of a friendship cut tragically short, the delicate balance of fate and
choice, and the many varieties of love and family that create meaning . . . A
Life in Men is a sort of joyous call to action. It will make you look more
carefully at the time you have left."::The Oregonian
"Frangello writes with a clarity into the human condition that allows her to lay
bare the countless ways our lives are connected, between us and other people,
but more importantly between ourselves and who we were and who we're becoming The
book's heartbreaking conclusion will leave you feeling you've been on the
journey with these characters, and all the better for it.."::The Kansas City
Star
"Frangello writes with epic ferocity. She inhabits many countries brilliantly,
many characters seamlessly, and a carousel of points of view It takes courage to
write a book like this."::Chicago Tribune, Printers Row
"A page-turner"::The Iowa City Gazette
"A stunning novel--Frangello's broken characters live in a world of terror and
redemption, of magnificent sadness and beauty."::Kirkus Reviews
Advance Praise for A Life in Men
booklist
Two college students and lifelong friends are vacationing in Greece in the
1980s. This is just one in a string of adventures for sexy, confident Nix, but
for Mary it's a radical departure from the sheltered life overseen by her
adoptive parents to keep her cystic fibrosis in check. Three years later, Mary
is in London, grieving for Nix, whose fate remains a mystery for much of the
novel. Mary lives on the edge, exacerbating her chronic illness, which Frangello
(Slut Lullabies, 2010) depicts with unnervingly clinical specificity. She falls
in love with a South African gymnast, and they travel the world. Frangello
describes each setting with elegiac intensity, assembles a
six-degrees-of-separation cast of characters lanced by secrets and pain, and
embroiders a suspenseful, melodramatic, wildly excessive plot of
interconnectivity, embodying Mary's desperate attempt to fill her numbered days
to the brim. In this bravura performance, a quantum creative leap, contrivances
and all, Frangello astutely dissects the quandaries of female sexuality,
adoption, terminal illness, and compound heartbreak in a torrent of tough-minded
observations, audacious candor, and storytelling moxie. - Donna Seaman
publisher's weekly
Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at age 17, Mary Grace wants to understand why her
lifelong friendship with Nix went awry during an ill-fated Greek vacation before
their junior year of college. She can't ask Nix, who has passed away, so she
moves to London, where Nix lived in the months prior to her death. For a short
time, Mary assumes Nix's name and adventurous personality and begins to experi
ment with a wild, seedy lifestyle, describing everything in a diary addressed to
her dead friend while trying to hide or ignore her own resurfacing illness.
Mary's determination to compress an entire lifetime of experiences into a few
years results in some spectacularly poor decisions, but because her illness
remains mild for a decade, her travels and the men she loves have a doomed,
romantic quality, until the book's conclusion. The aftermath of the Greek
vacation unfolds inexorably,as Mary's current storyline masterfully plays out to
its conclusion. Frangello's (Slut Lullabies) novel packs an emotional punch
throughout, particularly in its final third. Agent: Alice Tasman, Jean Naggar
Agency.(Feb.)
library journal
In the mid-1980s, when an American college student, Mary, is diagnosed with
cystic fibrosis, she escapes to Greece with the only person who doesn't treat
her with pity: her best friend, Nicole. In a twist of fate, Nicole's life ends
prematurely, and Mary tries to outrun her emotional burdens by living hard and
reinventing herself in London, where she is drawn to men who lead risky lives.
Intense yet meditative, Frangello's second novel (after My Sister's Continent)
asks how we would live if we knew our life was going to be cut short. Mary lives
out an "entitled hedonism." Even after she marries a doctor who loves her, she
is drawn back to a life of chasing adventure, and the one man who never treated
her like a fragile object. VERDICT Frangello's sophisticated writing vivdly
brings to life the setting of Mary's exotic travels, including Mexico,
Amsterdam, and Morocco; she smoothly streams the consciousness of her complex
characters in the third-person point of view, which alternates among Mary and
her lovers. Ambitious in breadth and scope, this work will appeal to fans of
Barbara Kingsolver and those who like being immersed in foreign settings. -Sonia
Reppe, Stickney Forest View P.L., IL
