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Summer Book Sale
Books from $5-$15... Find Your Bargain!
on the lawn at Ryan Books
July 18, 19, 20
Friday and Saturday 10-5:30
Sunday 10-3
Sign up for the Hendersen the Bear Raffle with purchase from the
children's room between now and the book sale.
Hendersen Needs a home and will be raffled at the sale Saturday at 1pm
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Date TBA:
Leni Zumas will be coming to Ryan Books to read from her first published book of short stories.
The following reviews are from her webiste:
http://www.opencity.org/farewell.html
"Zumas gives socially awkward, mysteriously gifted and self-destructive outcasts spellbinding, unflinching voice in her debut collection. The heroes in this collection are trapped; some are resigned to years of caregiving, many are institutionalized and nearly all haunt the fringes of normalcy (or disregard the normal altogether). Each story begins with a lightning strike into a new consciousness: the first flashes of a romance over the lunch line in a psych ward in “Waste No Time if This Method Fails”; a teenager in the title story dreaming of abandoning his blind parents; the young woman of “The Everything Hater” living in sustained dread after her brother’s repeated suicide attempts. There are triumphs, too: a patient in treatment for an eating disorder exacts revenge on a bully, and an underage groupie liberates herself from her punk lover’s fabricated fairy tale world. Zumas captures halfway-house heartbreak as well as moments of thoughtful, scab-picking solitude. It’s a powerful, irresistible collection."
—Publishers Weekly
“Attention unrequited lovers, sisters of suicidal brothers, children of the legally blind: you are not alone. Leni Zumas understands your quiet agony and describes it with such a wry, unflinching familiarity that even the gory details ring true. If darkness has ever been your friend, your story is in here.”
—Miranda July
