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Adam Haslett: book signing and discussion

Presented by Brazos Bookstore at Brazos Bookstore

February 21, 2010

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Brazos Bookstore presents Adam Haslett, Sunday, February 21 at 4pm.

We 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 books of 2002 by TIME Magazine. Now, Union Atlantic is becoming a publishing sensation with accolades like these:

"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."
—Esquire

"Adam Haslett's page-turner of a debut novel ranges brilliantly from the Strait of Hormuz to the outskirts of Boston to the belly of the financial beast—New York's Federal Reserve. It explains to me, with humor and style and generosity, how we became America in the year 2009. A must read."
—Gary Shteyngart

“Adam Haslett has the rarest of talents: the ability to combine a powerful intelligence with storytelling that is both elegant and suspenseful, and to break your heart in the process. Union Atlantic is a masterful portrait of our age.”
—Malcolm Gladwell

At the heart of Union Atlantic lies a test of wills between a young banker, Doug Fanning, and a retired 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 determines to oust him in court. As a senior manager of Union Atlantic bank, a major financial conglomerate, Doug is embroiled in the company's struggle to remain afloat. It is Charlotte's brother, Henry Graves, the president of the New York Federal Reserve, who must keep a watchful eye on Union Atlantic and the entire financial system.

Drawn into Doug and Charlotte's intensifying conflict is Nate Fuller, a troubled high-school senior who unwittingly stirs powerful emotions in each of them. Irresistibly complex, imaginative, and witty, Union Atlantic is a singular work of fiction that is sure to be read and reread.

Adam Haslett is the author of the short story 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 Award and won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and his work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Zoetrope All-Story, Best American Short Stories, The O’Henry Prize Stories, and National Public Radio’s Selected Shorts. In 2006, he won the PEN/Malamud Award for accomplishment in short fiction. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Columbia University and currently lives in New York City.

Please join us in welcoming Adam Haslett to Houston.

photo credit: Brigitte Lacombe.