RIVERHEAD Trade Paperback Just Added to February 2012 Other PeOPle We Married Emma Straub 978-1-59448-606-7 • $15.00/$16.00 Can. Trade Paperback 224 pp./5 1/8” x 8”/Carton: 56/Stories Rights: W00 UK, Translation, Audio: Riverhead Books Other: Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Brick House Literary Agents 80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1101, New York, NY 10011 Publishing History: FiveChapters Books trade paperback 978-0-982-93921-5 (2/11) EAN: 9781594486067 51500 On sale February 7, 2012 suggested order Photo © Allison Michael Orensetein A rising literary star debuts with twelve wry, poignant stories of love, hope, and transformation. In this vibrant debut collection, Emma Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with hilarity, vulnerability, and quietly dazzling insight. In “Some People Must Really Fall In Love,” an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward, adult world of office politics and blind dates while harboring feelings for one of her freshman students. Two grown sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they stumble to build a new relationship in “A Map of Modern Palm Springs.” Rome is the setting of “Puttanesca,” as two young widows move tentatively forward, still surrounded by ghosts and disappointments from the past. These twelve stories, filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language that are sure to become Straub’s hallmarks, announce the arrival of a major new talent. “Emma Straub is a wry, witty, incisively observant writer.” —Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply “Other People We Married is a revelation.” —Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America and A Gate at the Stairs MARKETING • New York media and in-store author appearances • Print features and re<strong>view</strong>s • Online advertising, re<strong>view</strong>s and author inter<strong>view</strong>s • Reading group outreach • Readers Guide available <strong>online</strong> SALES POINTS • The book was originally published by a small press and sold only via the press’s website and at a handful of independent stores—and it still generated amazing publicity in places such as The New York Times Book Re<strong>view</strong>, New York, Publishers Weekly, and more • Straub is a bookseller at Brooklyn’s BookCourt, where she is an integral part of the New York City independent bookselling community • Riverhead will publish Straub’s debut novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures, in hardcover in Fall 2012 Emma Straub’s fiction and nonfiction have been published by Slate, Tin House, The Paris Re<strong>view</strong> Daily, The Saint Ann’s Re<strong>view</strong>, Cousin Corinne’s Reminder, and many other journals. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband. Follow her on Twitter @emmastraub and visit her website at emmastraub.net. —92—
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