Author Talk with Emma Straub

• Date: Wednesday 10 June
• Time: 12.30pm
• Venue: Sevenoaks Bookshop, 147 High Street, Sevenoaks, TN13 1XJ
• Tickets: from £10

'American Fantasy is such a fun, delicious, big-hearted book.' -- Taylor Jenkins Reid

'I can hardly remember the last time I read anything that brought me such pure joy. I was up too late reading, then got up too early to go back to reading. All I wanted was American Fantasy. It brims with truth and humanity and insight, and it made me snort like a pig. I loved it. I think the entire country will love it.' -- Ann Patchett

'Wow, who knew that what my life was missing was a book about boats and boybands?! This is a treasure chest of a story, filled with Straub's signature warmth, humour, compassion and insight. I rooted for these characters and worried about them, and by the end, much like the Talkers, I was completely swept away by my love for them. An unmitigated pleasure from start to finish. I did not want to return to dry land!' -- Coco Mellors

American Fantasy

Annie is:

• On a cruise with her one-time favourite boyband and a thousand female super-fans
• Still reeling from her divorce
• Being replaced at work by her intern

Keith is:

• Fifty years old and in a band that performs dance routines with hip thrusts
• Suffering from sea sickness
• Certain his wife doesn't love him anymore

When a meet-and-greet throws them together, Annie develops a crush on Keith, and Keith starts to wonder if life might have a few surprises in store for him.
But are Keith and Annie just living a fantasy? And what happens when they get back to shore?

Emma Straub

Emma Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of four novels, The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, All Adults Here and the short story collection Other People We Married.

Her books have been published in twenty countries.

She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.

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Sevenoaks Bookshop, 147 High Street, Sevenoaks, United Kingdom

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