Author Talk and Book Signing with Lara Ehrlich and Kristina Ten on Sunday, November 2nd from 3-5 pm at the ReReads Booksellers
Come meet two fiction authors to celebrate their new books being published this fall. Hear them read excerpts and stay after for a book signing.
On November 2nd from 3-5 pm, in partnership with ReReads, we will host an Author Talk and Book Signing featuring Lara Ehrlich and Kristina Ten in conversation about their recent works of fiction: Bind Me Tighter Still and Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine.
Bind Me Tighter Still by Lara Ehrlich
The youngest of three siren sisters, Ceto is weary of an existence driven by hunger, no better than a fish. She trades her tail for life on land, marries the first man she meets, and bears a daughter, only to discover that domesticity is just as mundane as sirenhood. In search of something more, she flees with her daughter Naia to the ocean, where she establishes a mermaid burlesque and recreates herself, performing as a siren in a tank built into the limestone cliffs overlooking the sea. She trains more sirens, expanding Sirenland from a roadside attraction to a national sensation she rules without opposition—until Naia, at 15, begins to push back against the world Ceto has created and the role she performs in her mother’s shows. A death at Sirenland threatens Ceto’s authority and leads Naia to question whether this women-ruled kingdom is truly as empowering as her mother would have her believe. Bind Me Tighter Still explores power and hunger, sacrifice and motherhood, and celebrates the fierceness of female strength in a male-dominated world.
Lara Ehrlich is an award-winning CT author, founder of Thought Fox Writers Den, a community-based writers space for all levels, and hosts the podcast Writer, Mother, Monster. She has taught and participated in panels at Bread Loaf Writers Workshop, Yale Writers Workshop, AWP, and the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of English and Writer in Residence at Connecticut College.
Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine by Kristina Ten
The new kid in school discovers a diabolical presence in the depths of an English-language-learning CD-ROM. A declining empire, in its last desperate gasp, designs an elaborate matchmaking system around cootie catchers and soda-can tabs. A former varsity volleyball player reopens the grisly wounds of her youth, haunted by a lost friend. In each story, the game has been twisted. In each game, players must make their own rules. Through a bloody, shattered lens, the artifacts of growing up take on a new and disquieting power—riddles remain unsolved, pranks have perilous stakes, and superstitions won’t save you.
Populated by living paper dolls, summer camp legends, and trivia nights gone terribly wrong, the twelve genre-crossing tales in Tell Me Yours, I’ll Tell You Mine wrestle with themes of memory, disobedience, alienation, belonging, and the horrors of inhabiting a body others seek to control.
NY author Kristin Ten’s short fiction has appeared in such publications as McSweeney's, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy, We're Here: The Best Queer Speculative Fiction, and Lightspeed. She is a graduate of Clarion West Writers Workshop and the MFA program in fiction at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work has received McSweeney's Stephen Dixon Award, the Subjective Chaos Kind of Award for Short Fiction, and the F(r)iction Writing Contest, and has been a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, the Locus Award, and the WSFA Small Press Award.