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    Emily Fox Gordon: book signing and discussion

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    Presented by Brazos Bookstore at Brazos Bookstore

    September 14, 2010

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    Brazos Bookstore is pleased to welcome author Emily Fox Gordon for an in-store appearance on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM where she will discuss and sign her new book of essays, Book of Days: Personal Essays.

    Whatever the subject, Emily Fox Gordon’s disarmingly personal essays are an art form unto themselves—reflecting and revealing, like mirrors in a maze, the seemingly endless ways a woman can lose herself in the modern world. With piercing humor and merciless precision, Gordon zigzags her way through “the unevolved paradise” of academia, with its dying breeds of bohemians, adulterers, and flirts, then stumbles through the perils and pleasures of psychotherapy, hoping to find a narrative for her life.

    Along the way, she encounters textbook feminists, partying philosophers, perfectionist moms, and an unlikely kinship with Kafka—in a brilliant collection of essays that challenge our sacred institutions, defy our expectations, and define our lives.

    About the author: Emily Fox Gordon is an award-winning essayist and the author of the novel It Will Come to Me, and two memoirs, Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy and Are you Happy?: A Childhood Remembered. Her work has appeared in American Scholar, Time, Pushcart Prize Anthology XXIII and XXIX, the New York Times Book Review, Boulevard, and Salmagundi.

    She lives in Houston.


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        Brazos Bookstore

        2421 Bissonnet
        Houston, TX 77005

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        September 14, 2010

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        7:00pm

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