Jami Attenberg, Author . Random/Shaye Areheart $21 (267p) ISBN 978-0-307-33782-5
Attenberg's first novel focuses on the precise moments at which a handful of women fall in love, out of love and back in again: spontaneous Holly; her grounded big sister, Maggie; shy artist Sarah Lee; and a gaggle of their cohorts. Beginning...
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Jami Attenberg, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (291p) ISBN 978-1-59448-952-5
In this lugubrious first novel from Brooklynite Attenberg (Instant Love
), Jarvis Miller is a young, pretty “half-widow” in the Williamsburg neighborhood. For six years, her brilliant painter husband, Martin Miller, has lain in a coma in
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Jami Attenberg, Author . Riverhead $25.95 (289p) ISBN 978-1-59448-896-2
From the author of The Kept Man
comes an uneven road story about a woman fleeing from her past. Catherine “Moonie” Madison, 25, runs away from her stifling smalltown Nebraska life with a suitcase full of her husband's money, ending
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Jami Attenberg. Grand Central, $24.99 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4555-0721-4
A panoply of neurotic characters fills Attenberg’s multigenerational novel about a Midwestern Jewish family. Shifting points of view tell the story of the breakup and aftermath of Edie and Richard Middlestein’s nearly 40-year marriage as Edie slowly
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Jami Attenberg. Grand Central, $25 (336p) ISBN 978-1-4555-9989-9
Attenberg’s (The Middlesteins) new novel is based on the WWI- and Depression-era life of Mazie Phillips, Queen of the Bowery (and subject of a famous Joseph Mitchell New Yorker profile). The story unfolds mostly through diary entries, but also...
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Jami Attenberg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $25 (208p) ISBN 978-0-544-82424-9
Attenberg’s (Saint Mazie) new novel is a bildungsroman with a twist, adapting a coming-of-age narrative to a protagonist who is not as young as her immaturity sometimes suggests. In her 30s, New Yorker Andrea Bern is a gifted artist whose talents...
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Jami Attenberg. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-544-82425-6
A patriarch’s death strains a family’s already fraught relationships in this dazzling novel from Attenberg (All Grown Up). Shady real estate developer Victor Tuchman suffers a heart attack in New Orleans and is rushed to the hospital. During his...
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Jami Attenberg. Ecco, $27.99 (272) ISBN 978-0-06-303979-7
Novelist Attenberg (All Grown Up) meditates on the virtues and vices of an unscripted life in this sparkling memoir. In vivid essays, Attenberg recalls her couch-surfing years in her 20s, an assault she survived in college (“That moment remains a...
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Jami Attenberg. Simon Element, $24.99 (224p) ISBN 978-1-66802-360-0
This encouraging handbook by novelist Attenberg (I Came All This Way to Meet You) offers brief essays aimed at motivating readers to get writing. Reflecting on her own process, Attenberg discusses her routine of writing 1,000 words per day and...
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Jami Attenberg. Ecco, $28 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-303984-1
Attenberg (The Middlesteins) chronicles the lives of the dysfunctional Cohen family over four decades in her nuanced latest. The opening scene, set in 1971 Chicago during a game of Scrabble, delineates their fraught dynamics. Frieda, the mother,...
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