Cutting Teeth & Book Club Visit, 12 copies of novel
Item Number: 433
Time Left: CLOSED
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Win 12 copies of PS29 parent and author Julia Fierro's highly anticipated debut novel, Cutting Teeth. The book follows a group of Cobble Hill parents as they vacation together one summer weekend, their children in tow. The winner of this auction receives twelve copies of Cutting Teeth, to be published by St. Martin's Press on May 13th, and Julia Fierro will visit their book club. Cutting Teeth, perfect for readers of Tom Perrotta and Meg Wolitzer, has been included on "most anticipated books of 2014" lists by HuffPost Books, Marie Claire, The Millions, and Flavorwire. You can read an excerpt from the novel on Julia Fierro's author site: http://www.juliafierro.com/author/ Early praise: "Entertaining, wise, heart-breaking at times, Cutting Teeth is an outstanding debut. Julia Fierro's particular genius is her ability to understand and render the vagaries of the human heart." ~ Therese Anne Fowler, author of the bestselling Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald "Julia Fierro's debut is filled with honesty, humor and intelligence. First, I fell in love with the insightful, graceful voice, then with the complex, deeply flawed yet appealing characters, and finally with the narrative arc that carried me from beginning to end in one rush. Cutting Teeth is compelling, and infused with compassion." ~ Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation "I¿d read nearly fifty pages before I came up for breath¿Cutting Teeth is immediately satisfying and reads as smoothly as a peanut butter sandwich with the crusts cut off." ~ Emma Straub, author of Laura Lamont¿s Life in Pictures ¿Cutting Teeth is for any reader seeking a tale rich in character, strong in voice and filled with both incisive social critique and a luminous generosity of spirit, a rare combination indeed.¿ ~ Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me About the author: Julia Fierro's debut novel, Cutting Teeth, will be published by St. Martin's Press in May 2014. Her work has been published, or is forthcoming, in Guernica Magazine, The Millions, Flavorwire and other publications, and she has been profiled in the L Magazine, Brooklyn Magazine, The Observer and The Economist. In 2002, she founded The Sackett Street Writers¿ Workshop, and what started as eight writers meeting in her Brooklyn kitchen has grown into a creative home for over 2000 writers. She is a graduate of The Iowa Writers¿ Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow, and currently teaches the Post-MFA workshops at Sackett Street. Julia lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children. She can be found online at juliafierro.com and on Twitter @juliafierro
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Book summary: One of the most anticipated debut novels of 2014, Cutting Teeth takes place one late-summer weekend as a group of thirty-something couples gather at a shabby beach house on Long Island, their young children in tow. These tensions build, burn, and collide over the course of the weekend, culminating in a scene in which the ultimate rule of the group is broken. Cutting Teeth captures the complex dilemmas of early midlife¿the vicissitudes of friendship, of romantic and familial love, and of sex. It confronts class tension, status hunger, and the unease of being in possession of life¿s greatest bounty while still wondering, is this as good as it gets? It exposes the motives that drive us to commit the bad behaviors we thought we¿d left behind in our 20s, and reveals the damage those mistakes inflict. And, perhaps most of all, Julia Fierro¿s thought-provoking debut explores the all-consuming love we feel for those we need most, and the sacrifice and self-compromise that underpins that love. All this is packed into a page-turning, character-driven novel that crackles with life and unexpected twists and turns that will keep readers glued as they cringe and laugh with compassion, incredulousness, and, most of all, self-recognition. Cutting Teeth is a warm, whip-smart and unpretentious literary novel, perfect for readers of Tom Perrotta and Meg Wolitzer.