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SUMMARY:Gabriela Garcia: Of Women and Salt
DESCRIPTION:Litquake’s Epicenter: A Virtual Series\nBringing writers from around the world to your computer screen\nCo-presented by Green Apple Books on the Park \nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host the launch event for Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt (Flatiron Books)\, a sweeping\, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice\, a mother motivated by her own past\, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. Gabriela will read from and discuss her work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation \nRegistration required. Spots are limited.\nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nFrom 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers\, from Cuba to Mexico\, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals—personal and political\, self-inflicted and those done by others—that have shaped the lives of a collection of extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers\, the legacy of the memories they carry\, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them\, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled\, honest\, human roots. \nIn present-day Miami\, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen\, a Cuban immigrant\, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen\, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement\, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding\, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. \nGabriela Garcia is author of the novel Of Women and Salt (March 30\, 2021). Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Tin House\, Zyzzyva\, Iowa Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Black Warrior Review\, and elsewhere. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award\, a Steinbeck Fellowship\, and residencies and fellowships from Breadloaf\, Sarabande Books\, Lighthouse Works\, the Keller Estate\, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She has an MFA in fiction from Purdue University\, where she also taught creative writing. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Mexico\, Gabriela was raised in Miami and currently lives in the Bay Area. In her past life she worked in music\, magazines\, technology\, and feminist and immigrant rights organizing. Follow her at www.gabrielagarciawriter.com.
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SUMMARY:Virtual Event: Gabriela Garcia
DESCRIPTION:IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LITQUAKE\nJOIN US ON THURSDAY\, APRIL 8 AT 5PM PT WHEN GABRIELA GARCIA DISCUSSES HER DEBUT NOVEL\, OF WOMEN AND SALT!\nA PART OF LITQUAKE’S EPICENTER SERIES\nPreorder the book here and receive a signed copy! \nLitquake and Green Apple Books are honored to host the launch event for Gabriela Garcia’s Of Women and Salt (Flatiron Books)\, a sweeping\, masterful debut about a daughter’s fateful choice\, a mother motivated by her own past\, and a family legacy that begins in Cuba before either of them were born. Gabriela will read from and discuss her work. Audience Q&A to follow. FREE\, $10-15 suggested donation \nRegistration required. Spots are limited. You can register for this event here. \nEvent will also be livecasted on Facebook Live. \nAbout Of Women and Salt\nFrom 19th-century cigar factories to present-day detention centers\, from Cuba to Mexico\, Of Women and Salt is a kaleidoscopic portrait of betrayals—personal and political\, self-inflicted and those done by others—that have shaped the lives of a collection of extraordinary women. A haunting meditation on the choices of mothers\, the legacy of the memories they carry\, and the tenacity of women who choose to tell their stories despite those who wish to silence them\, this is more than a diaspora story; it is a story of America’s most tangled\, honest\, human roots. \nIn present-day Miami\, Jeanette is battling addiction. Daughter of Carmen\, a Cuban immigrant\, she is determined to learn more about her family history from her reticent mother and makes the snap decision to take in the daughter of a neighbor detained by ICE. Carmen\, still wrestling with the trauma of displacement\, must process her difficult relationship with her own mother while trying to raise a wayward Jeanette. Steadfast in her quest for understanding\, Jeanette travels to Cuba to see her grandmother and reckon with secrets from the past destined to erupt. \nAbout Gabriela Garcia\nGabriela Garcia is author of the novel Of Women and Salt (March 30\, 2021). Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry\, Tin House\, Zyzzyva\, Iowa Review\, Michigan Quarterly Review\, The Cincinnati Review\, Black Warrior Review\, and elsewhere. She received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer’s Award\, a Steinbeck Fellowship\, and residencies and fellowships from Breadloaf\, Sarabande Books\, Lighthouse Works\, the Keller Estate\, and the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. She has an MFA in fiction from Purdue University\, where she also taught creative writing. The daughter of immigrants from Cuba and Mexico\, Gabriela was raised in Miami and currently lives in the Bay Area. In her past life she worked in music\, magazines\, technology\, and feminist and immigrant rights organizing. Follow her at www.gabrielagarciawriter.com.
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SUMMARY:Kim Shuck's Poetry Night\, One City One Book Edition
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER \nNatasha Dennerstein\, Molly Fisk\, Kelly Grace Thomas\, Kelliane Parker and Ramona “Mona” Webb lead a One City One Book inspired reading. \nNatasha Dennerstein was born in Melbourne\, Australia. She has an MFA from San Francisco State University. Dennerstein has had poetry published in many journals internationally. Her collections Anatomize (2015)\, Triptych Caliform (2016) and her novella-in-verse About a Girl (2017) were published by Norfolk Press in San Francisco. Her trans chapbook Seahorse (2017) was published by Nomadic Press in Oakland. She lives in Oakland\, California\, where she is an editor at Nomadic Press and works at St James Infirmary\, a clinic for sex-workers in San Francisco. She was a 2018 Fellow of the Lambda Literary Writer’s Retreat. \nMolly Fisk edited California Fire & Water\, A Climate Crisis Anthology\, with a Poets Laureate Fellowship from the Academy of American Poets. She’s the author of The More Difficult Beauty\, Listening to Winter\, and Houston\, We Have a Possum among other books and has won grants from the NEA\, the California Arts Council and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Fisk lives in the Sierra foothills\, where she teaches writing to cancer patients\, provides weekly commentary to community radio and works as a radical life coach. Connect –  Website | Patreon | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nKelly Grace Thomas is the winner of the 2017 Neil Postman Award for Metaphor from Rattle\, a 2018 finalist for the Rita Dove Poetry Award\, a multiple Pushcart Prize nominee and Best of the Next nominee. Boat Burned\, her first full-length collection\, was released by YesYes Books in January 2020. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in: Best New Poets 2019\, the Los Angeles Review\, Tinderbox\, Nashville Review\, Sixth Finch\, Muzzle\, DIAGRAM and more. They have received fellowships from Tin House\, Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing\, Kenyon Review Young Writers’ and more. Connect – Website | Instagram | Twitter | Facebook \nKelliane Parker is a Bay Area poet and co-host of My Word Open Mic. Parker has performed in the Bay Area\, and her work has been featured in local anthologies. Her work gives voice to survivors of sexual abuse and other violent trauma to heal and break the cycle. \nRamona “Mona” Webb is a scholar\, practitioner\, teaching performance artist and Afro-Creek queer activist. Mona formerly served as Artistic Director of Project ABLE and Lyrical Minded415\, which is an Art Based Learning for Equity seasonal course implemented in SFUSD’s Title I Neglected school sites. For 10 years Mona served as poetry Slammaster of San Francisco. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne City One Book\n\n\nEvents and workshops curated around SFPL’s One City One Book selection. One City One Book: San Francisco Reads is a citywide literary event that encourages members of the San Francisco community to read the same book at the same time. For more information\, see sfpl.org/onecityonebook.
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SUMMARY:Todd Miller
DESCRIPTION:Todd Miller and guest TBD in conversation discussing \nBuild Bridges\, Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders \nPublished by City Lights Books \nIn personal stories from twenty years of activism and reporting\, the award-winning journalist calls on readers to imagine a world without borders. \nThe event is free to attend\, but you must register (HERE) \nPurchase book (HERE) \nThis event has been sponsored by the City Lights Foundation \nPraise for Build Bridges\, Not Walls: \n“In its soulfulness\, its profound moral imagination\, and its vision of radical solidarity\, Todd Miller’s work is as indispensable as the love that so palpably guides it.”—Ben Ehrenreich\, author of Desert Notebooks: A Road Map for the End of Time \n“All of Todd Miller’s work is essential reading\, but Build Bridges\, Not Walls is his most compelling\, insightful book yet.”—Dean Spade\, author of Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crises (And the Next) \n“Drawing on the work of abolitionist movement leaders\, this book points toward the radical opening of the imagination urgently needed to transform walls into bridges.”—A. Naomi Paik\, author of Bans\, Walls Raids\, Sanctuary: Understanding U.S. Immigration for the Twenty-First Century and Rightlessness: Testimony and Redress in U.S. Prison Camps Since World War II \n“Todd Miller not only makes the case for tearing down the walls of Fortress America\, but also for the future of the planet and humanity. The stories of the humble people of the earth he documents ask us to also tear down the walls in our hearts and in our heads. What proliferates in the absence of these walls and in spite of them\, Miller writes\, is the natural state of things centered on kindness and compassion.”—Nick Estes\, author of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline\, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance \nTodd Miller has researched and written about border issues for more than 15 years\, the last eight as an independent journalist and writer. He resides in Tucson\, Arizona\, but also has spent many years living and working in Oaxaca\, Mexico. His work has appeared in the New York Times\, TomDispatch\, The Nation\, San Francisco Chronicle\, In These Times\, Guernica\, and Al Jazeera English\, among other places. Miller is the author of three books: Empire of Borders: The Expansion of the U.S. Border Around the World (Verso\, 2019)\, Storming the Wall: Climate Change\, Migration\, and Homeland Security (City Lights\, 2017)\, which was awarded the 2018 Izzy Award for Excellence in Independent Journalism\, and Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security (City Lights\, 2014). He’s a contributing editor on border and immigration issues for NACLA Report on the Americas and its column “Border Wars.”
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SUMMARY:Open Mic Night | Featuring Daniel B. Summerhill
DESCRIPTION:OPEN MIC THURSDAYS continue. Join us on ZOOM twice a month for our virtual Open Mic. Look for MoAD Open Mic every other Thursday this month. Hosted by poet Nia McAllister\, join us for an evening of spoken word\, featuring amazing poets and musicians from throughout the Bay Area and beyond. Participate or just watch. Everyone is welcome. \nAll interested performers\, please sign up below. For those interested in listening as part of the audience\, no need to fill out the form\, just follow the zoom link below: \nSign up to perform below. Everyone is welcome. \n\n\n\nOpen Mic Night\, April 8 2021\n\n\n\nFirst Name\n\n\nLast Name\n\n\nEmail Address\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDonations of any amount are always welcome\, so if you are able to\, please consider donating to MoAD online HERE\, or donating through Give by Cell by texting the word: MOADSF to the number: 56512 on your cell phone\, then follow the link provided to make a donation. All donations will go towards supporting MoAD and continuing to bring you engaging programming. \nHere are the instructions for joining via ZOOM: \nFOLLOW THE ZOOM LINK TO RECEIVE A LOGIN TO JOIN THE PROGRAM \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkc–sqjMvGtGhX_EMTqCBCfQsJKvF_gJG \nOnce you register via Zoom\, you will receive an email with the link to join the program. \nOur Featured Artist: Daniel B. Summerhill \nDaniel B. Summerhill is Assistant Professor of Poetry/Social Action and Composition Studies at California State University Monterey Bay. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Obsidian\, Button Poetry\, Rust and Moth\, Cosmonauts Avenue\, The Hellebore\, The Lilly Review and others. He has performed in over 30 states\, The UK and was invited by the U.S Embassy to guest lecture and perform in Durban\, South Africa. He holds an MFA from Solstice of Pine Manor College. 
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:David Talbot and Margaret Talbot
DESCRIPTION:celebrating the launch of their new book \nBy The Light Of Burning Dreams: The Triumphs and Tragedies of the Second American Revolution \npublished by Harper Collins \nNew York Times bestselling author David Talbot and New Yorker journalist Margaret Talbot illuminate “America’s second revolutionary generation” in this gripping history of one of the most dynamic eras of the twentieth century—brought to life through seven defining radical moments that offer vibrant parallels and lessons for today. \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. Link to be posted. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. Link to be posted. \n———– \nThe political landscape of the 1960s and 1970s was perhaps one of the most tumultuous in this country’s history\, shaped by the fight for civil rights\, women’s liberation\, Black power\, and the end to the Vietnam War. In many ways\, this second American revolution was a belated fulfillment of the betrayed promises of the first\, striving to extend the full protections of the Bill of Rights to non-white\, non-male\, non-elite Americans excluded by the nation’s founders. \nBased on exclusive interviews\, original documents\, and archival research\, By the Light of Burning Dreams explores critical moments in the lives of a diverse cast of iconoclastic leaders of the twentieth century radical movement: Bobby Seale of the Black Panthers; Heather Booth and the Jane Collective\, the first underground feminist abortion clinic; Vietnam War peace activists Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda; Cesar Chavez\, Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers; Craig Rodwell and the Gay Pride movement; Dennis Banks\, Madonna Thunder Hawk\, Russell Means and the warriors of Wounded Knee; and John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s politics of stardom. Margaret and David Talbot reveal the epiphanies that galvanized these modern revolutionaries and created unexpected connections and alliances between individual movements and across race\, class\, and gender divides. \nAmerica is still absorbing—and reacting against—the revolutionary forces of this tumultuous period. The change these leaders enacted demanded much of American society and the human imagination. By the Light of Burning Dreams is an immersive and compelling chronicle of seven lighting rods of change and the generation that engraved itself in American narrative—and set the stage for those today\, fighting to bend forward the arc of history. \nDavid Talbot is the author of the New York Times bestseller Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and the acclaimed national bestseller Season of the Witch: Enchantment\, Terror\, and Deliverance in the City of Love. He is the founder and former editor in chief of Salon\, and was a senior editor at Mother Jones and the features editor at the San Francisco Examiner. He has written for The New Yorker\, Rolling Stone\, Time\, The Guardian\, and other major publications. Talbot lives in San Francisco\, California. \nMargaret Talbot joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2004. Previously\, she was a contributing writer at the New York Times Magazine and\, from 1995 to 1999\, an editor at The New Republic. Her stories\, covering legal issues\, social policy\, and popular culture\, have appeared\, in addition to in the Times Magazine and The New Republic\, in The Atlantic Monthly\, National Geographic\, and the Times Book Review. She was one of the founding editors of Lingua Franca and was a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. In 1999\, she received a Whiting Writer’s Award. She is the author of “The Entertainer: Movies\, Magic and My Father’s Twentieth Century\,” about Lyle Talbot\, her father. \nAdvance Praise for By The Light Of Burning Dreams: \n\n“By the Light of Burning Dreams crackles with the radical energy of the 1960s and 70s. It’s a shot in the arm of bold idealism\, an indispensable companion for today’s revolutionaries that reminds us what can happen if we dare to believe in – and fight for – a better world.” \n\n-Jessica Bruder\, author of Nomadland\n\n\n\n“An intelligent and sympathetic reappraisal of the political upheavals of the ’60s and’ 70s…. An abundance of fresh material gives this book an intergenerational appeal…. Through sharp reporting and good storytelling\, the authors enliven a journalistic genre that in less skilled hands might have gone flat.” \n\n–Kirkus\n\n\n\n“In these linked portraits of activists and radicals at a watershed moment in history\, David and Margaret Talbot tell a profound story about idealism in action and the rousing\, inspiring\, often messy ways in which popular movements and charismatic individuals fight injustice and bring about revolutionary transformation. By turns sweeping and intimate\, and built on fresh interviews and original reporting\, By the Light of Burning Dreams feels like necessary reading in our own tumultuous moment: an urgent reminder that change can happen and a vivid illustration of how it does.” \n\n-Patrick Radden Keefe\, author of Say Nothing\n\n  \n  \nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:Mazza Writer in Residence Brontez Purnell and Friends\, reading and in conversation
DESCRIPTION:Remote access event\, free and open to the public\nRegistration link pending \nWith emcee\, TreVaughn Malik Roach-Carter \nSupported by the Sam Mazza Foundation \nDetails tba here \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nImage: film still from 100 Boyfriends Mixtape (2016)\, 14 min. \n\n\n\n\nEvent contact:\n\nThe Poetry Center\n\n\n\nEvent email:\n\npoetry@sfsu.edu
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LOCATION:online
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Matthew Gavin Frank In conversation with Elena Passarello
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Gavin Frank discusses his new book\, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers: A Tale of Pigeons\, Obsession\, and Greed Along Coastal South Africa (Liveright)\, with Elena Passarello. \nThis event will be streamed on our Crowdcast channel. \nREGISTER HERE \nAbout Flight of the Diamond Smugglers\n  \n“Unforgettable. . . . An outstanding adventure in its lyrical\, utterly compelling\, and heartbreaking investigations of the world of diamond smuggling.” —Aimee Nezhukumatathil \nFor nearly eighty years\, a huge portion of coastal South Africa was closed off to the public. With many of its pits now deemed “overmined” and abandoned\, American journalist Matthew Gavin Frank sets out across the infamous Diamond Coast to investigate an illicit trade that supplies a global market. Immediately\, he became intrigued by the ingenious methods used in facilitating smuggling\, particularly\, the illegal act of sneaking carrier pigeons onto mine property\, affixing diamonds to their feet\, and sending them into the air. \nEntering Die Sperrgebiet (“The Forbidden Zone”) is like entering an eerie ghost town\, but Frank is surprised by the number of people willing—even eager—to talk with him. Soon he meets Msizi\, a young diamond digger\, and his pigeon\, Bartholomew\, who helps him steal diamonds. It’s a deadly game: pigeons are shot on sight by mine security\, and Msizi knows of smugglers who have disappeared because of their crimes. For this\, Msizi blames “Mr. Lester\,” an evil tall-tale figure of mythic proportions. \nFrom the mining towns of Alexander Bay and Port Nolloth\, through the “halfway” desert\, to Kleinzee’s shores littered with shipwrecks\, Frank investigates a long overlooked story. Weaving interviews with local diamond miners who raise pigeons in secret with harrowing anecdotes from former heads of security\, environmental managers\, and vigilante pigeon hunters\, Frank reveals how these feathered bandits became outlaws in every mining town. \nInterwoven throughout this obsessive quest are epic legends in which pigeons and diamonds intersect\, such as that of Krishna’s famed diamond Koh-i-Noor\, the Mountain of Light\, and that of the Cherokee serpent Uktena. In these strange connections\, where truth forever tangles with the lore of centuries past\, Frank is able to contextualize the personal grief that sent him\, with his wife Louisa in the passenger seat\, on this enlightening journey across parched lands. \nBlending elements of reportage\, memoir\, and incantation\, Flight of the Diamond Smugglers is a rare and remarkable portrait of exploitation and greed in one of the most dangerous areas of coastal South Africa. With his sovereign prose and insatiable curiosity\, Matthew Gavin Frank “reminds us that the world is a place of wonder if only we look” (Toby Muse). \nAbout the participants\nMatthew Gavin Frank is the author of The Mad Feast and Preparing the Ghost\, which was reviewed on the front-page of the New York Times Book Review. He teaches creative writing and lives in Marquette\, Michigan. \nElena Passarello is an actor\, a writer\, and recipient of a 2015 Whiting Award. Her first collection with Sarabande Books\, Let Me Clear My Throat\, won the gold medal for nonfiction at the 2013 Independent Publisher Awards and was a finalist for the 2014 Oregon Book Award. Her essays on performance\, pop culture\, and the natural world have been published in Oxford American\, Slate\, Creative Nonfiction\, and The Iowa Review\, among other publications\, as well as in the 2015 anthologies Cat is Art Spelled Wrong and After Montaigne: Contemporary Essayists Cover the Essay. Passarello lives in Corvallis\, Oregon and teaches at Oregon State University.
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LOCATION:CA
CATEGORIES:Free,Virtual
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SUMMARY:Author Julie Buxbaum Discussing ADMISSION | Thu. Apr. 8 @ 7 PDT | GGP Online Author Chat
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Thursday\, April 8\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a discussion of the great new YA novel ADMISSION with author Julie Buxbaum. \nOur discussion will be webcast on Zoom at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86785320869. \nOrder your copy of ADMISSION at http://bit.ly/ggpAdmission\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm at http://bit.ly/AdmissionAB. \nDescription\n\nLie. Cheat. Bribe. How far would you go to get into your dream school? How far would your parents go? Inspired by the recent college admissions scandal\, this ripped-from-the-headlines YA novel by the New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me Three Things sees one teenage girl’s privileged world shatter when her family’s lies are exposed. \nIt’s good to be Chloe Wynn Berringer–she has it all–money\, privilege\, and a ticket to the college of her dreams. Or at least she did until the FBI came knocking on her front door\, guns at the ready\, and her future went up in smoke. Now her B list celebrity mother is under arrest in a massive college admissions bribery scandal\, and Chloe might be the next one facing charges. The public is furious\, the headlines are brutal\, and the US attorney is out for blood. \nAs everything she’s taken for granted starts to slip away\, Chloe must reckon not only with the truth of what happened\, but also with the examination of her own guilt. How much did she really know-or guess? Why did her parents think the only way for her to succeed was to cheat? And what does it really mean to be complicit? \nBestselling author Julie Buxbaum takes on the college admissions bribery scandal that rocked the country in this timely tale of the hyper elite and the hyper competitive\, and the lengths they go to stay at the top. \nAbout the Author\n\nJULIE BUXBAUM is the author of the What to Say Next\, as well as the New York Times bestseller Tell Me Three Things\, her debut young adult novel. She also wrote the critically acclaimed The Opposite of Love and After You. Her work has been translated into twenty-five languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two young children. \nPraise For…\n\n“Deft\, page-turning\, and fresh as the latest college admissions gossip.” —Kirkus Reviews  \n“[Buxbaum’s] assessment of the entitled 1% feels spot-on.” —Publishers Weekly
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