LITERATURE + LECTURES

Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome Jami Attenberg,  author of The Kept Man, for a book signing and discussion, Tuesday, January 27 at 6pm.

Jami Attenberg has written for Jane, Print, Salon, Nylon, The San Francisco Chronicle, Nextbook, and Time Out New York. Her fiction has appeared in Nerve, Pindeldyboz, Spork, and Bullfight Review.

 THE KEPT MAN was published by Riverhead Books in January 2008. A third book, THE MELTING SEASON, will be published by Riverhead Books in the future. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

In her novel, The Kept Man, Jarvis Miller’s artist husband has been in a coma for six years. And so, Jarvis has spent these years suspended between hope and grief, paralyzed with longing for a life and a marriage that are slipping away. But then, unexpectedly, Jarvis makes her first new friends in years when she meets the Kept Man Club: three men whose lifestyles are funded by their successful wives, who gather once a week on laundry day.

With their help, she reawakens to the city beyond her Brooklyn apartment, past the pitying eyes of her husband’s art dealer and his irresponsible best friend as her future begins to take on the irresistible tingles of possibility for the first time in almost a decade. When a shocking discovery casts a different light on her idealized marriage, she’s propelled even further down a path that she would never have dared to imagine just months before.

Tender, bold, and unabashed, The Kept Man is a compulsively readable novel about love and loss from one of our most dynamic new storytellers.