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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Adam Haslett:  book signing and discussion\nEvent U
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 \nBrazos Bookstore presents Adam Haslett\, Sunday\, February 21 at 4pm.\nW
 e are genuinely thrilled to be a stop on Adam Haslett's tour for his much-
 anticipated debut novel\, Union Atlantic. His collection of stories\, You 
 Are Not a Stranger Here\, was a finalist for both the National Book Award 
 (2002) and the Pulitzer Prize (2003) and was named one of the five best bo
 oks of 2002 by TIME Magazine. Now\, Union Atlantic is becoming a publishin
 g sensation with accolades like these:\n'The first great novel of the new 
 century. It's big and ambitious\, like novels used to be. It's about us\, 
 now. All of us.'\n&mdash\;Esquire\n'Adam Haslett's page-turner of a debut 
 novel ranges brilliantly from the Strait of Hormuz to the outskirts of Bos
 ton to the belly of the financial beast&mdash\;New York's Federal Reserve.
  It explains to me\, with humor and style and generosity\, how we became A
 merica in the year 2009. A must read.'\n&mdash\;Gary Shteyngart\n&ldquo\;A
 dam Haslett has the rarest of talents: the ability to combine a powerful i
 ntelligence with storytelling that is both elegant and suspenseful\, and t
 o break your heart in the process. Union Atlantic is a masterful portrait 
 of our age.&rdquo\;\n&mdash\;Malcolm Gladwell\nAt the heart of Union Atlan
 tic lies a test of wills between a young banker\, Doug Fanning\, and a ret
 ired schoolteacher\, Charlotte Graves\, whose two dogs have begun to speak
  to her. When Doug builds an ostentatious mansion on land that Charlotte's
  grandfather donated to the town of Finden\, Massachusetts\, she determine
 s to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank\, a maj
 or financial conglomerate\, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to
  remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother\, Henry Graves\, the president o
 f the New York Federal Reserve\, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atl
 antic and the entire financial system.\nDrawn into Doug and Charlotte's in
 tensifying conflict is Nate Fuller\, a troubled high-school senior who unw
 ittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them. Irresistibly complex\, i
 maginative\, and witty\, Union Atlantic is a singular work of fiction that
  is sure to be read and reread.\nAdam Haslett is the author of the short s
 tory collection You Are Not a Stranger Here and the novel Union Atlantic. 
 His first book was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Awa
 rd and won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. He has received fellows
 hips from the Guggenheim Foundation\, the Rockefeller Foundation\, and the
  Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and his work has appeared in The New Y
 orker\, The Nation\, The Atlantic Monthly\, Zoetrope All-Story\, Best Amer
 ican Short Stories\, The O'Henry Prize Stories\, and National Public Radio
 's Selected Shorts. In 2006\, he won the PEN/Malamud Award for accomplishm
 ent in short fiction. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Iowa Wr
 iters' Workshop and Columbia University and currently lives in New York Ci
 ty.\nPlease join us in welcoming Adam Haslett to Houston.\nphoto credit: B
 rigitte Lacombe.\n\nStart time: 4:00pm
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