Join us for a presentation and signing by Kerri Schlottman, author of DAYTIME MOON.About this Event
The $30 event ticket reserves your seat and purchases a copy of DAYTIME MOON! The $5 ticket reserves a seat only; you will receive a $5 voucher upon arrival to spend at the store for a purchase that night!
Walk-ins to this event are welcome but space is limited.
Hope to see you in the shop!
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Isa has a gift. Premonitions, intuitive insight, a knack for tarot. But she is adrift.
Years ago, she ran away from one coast to the other and never looked back, but when her brother Cole unexpectedly shows up on her stoop, she’s convinced that it’s time to go home. Back in the California desert, Isa is swept up in her former life of late-night drag races by the Salton Sea, beers with the locals, and haunting reminders of the twin sister she lost and the mother she never got to meet.
When Dane, the man who raised them, becomes terminally ill, Isa is forced to confront everything she ran away from. In a posthumous letter, his revelations ignite her fearless internal drive. Traveling up and down California highways, through desert and forest, roaring coastline and border towns, Isa will follow the signs so delicately woven into the fabric of her life—a name, a constellation, a painting, a gleam of recognition on the water’s surface. If she can piece them together, she just might reunite the shattered remains of her beloved family.
Artfully narrated, Daytime Moon is an unforgettable journey through hidden stories, the shimmering fluidity of memory, the depths of women's secrets, and the magic of transmutation.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Kerri Schlottman is a writer of literary fiction novels, most recently Daytime Moon (Unnamed Press, May 2026). Her novel Tell Me One Thing was named a 2025 Storytrade Literary Fiction Finalist, a two-time 2024 PenCraft Fiction Award Winner, a 2023 American Book Fest Best Literary Fiction Book Finalist, and a Shelf Awareness Best Book This Week. Kerri works to support artists, performers, and writers in creating new projects and is a part-time graduate professor at NYU in arts administration.
BOOK REVIEWS:
"Daytime Moon is a deeply engrossing and extraordinarily powerful novel about the unspoken histories that shape our lives. Set against the stark beauty of the California desert and the Salton Sea, Schlottman’s story captures the gripping and complex emotional journey of a daughter in search of answers to both her mother’s past and her own future. Written with remarkable precision and insight, every page of Daytime Moon is a testament to Schlottman’s enormous gifts as a storyteller and writer."
— Andrew Porter, author of The Imagined Life
"Tender, insightful, and intricately crafted, Daytime Moon explores the ways in which our decisions radiate forward with unforeseeable consequence. Masterfully weaving the everyday with the eternal, Schlottman invites us on an adventure of discovery and belonging. I returned to the beginning the moment I finished to marvel at how she pulled it off."
— Laura Venita Green, author of Sister Creatures
"Gorgeously written and intensely felt, Schlottman adds a worthy milestone on her journey to excellence."
— Scott Semegran, award-winning author of Starman After Midnight
ABOUT THE MEDIATOR:
Emmalea Russo is the author of two novels: Vivienne (2024) and The Moon Papers (forthcoming summer 2026). Her books of poetry are G (2018), Wave Archive (2019), Confetti (2022), and Magenta (2023). Recent poems and essays have appeared in Artforum, BOMB, Spike Art Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail, Compact, Granta, Gulf Coast, Los Angeles Review of Books, and elsewhere. She has been a writer in residence at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York and 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles and a visiting critic at Parsons School of Design and The Art Institute of Cincinnati. She has taught courses on poetry, philosophy, and art at various institutions including Saint Peter's University, Northeastern University, The Melbourne School of Literature, and GCAS. Her books have been reviewed in The Chicago Review, The Yale Review, Publishers Weekly, and elsewhere. She writes a popular substack newsletter on literature, the cosmos, and philosophy, Cosmic Edges, and teaches classes on literature, art, psychoanalysis, and the occult. She lives in Bucks County, Pennsylvania and at the Jersey shore.
Event Venue
Asbury Book Cooperative, 644A Cookman Avenue, Asbury Park, United States
USD 7.18 to USD 33.85
