AMY FUSSELMAN
Tuesday, May 8 at 7:30 p.m.

Co-presented with the KING COUNTY SEXUAL ASSAULT RESOURCE CENTER. A writer whose work first found wide readership in McSweeney's and then in a McSweeney's-published book, The Pharmacist's Mate, Amy Fusselman is back with a new and enticing autobiographical account, 8: A Memoir (Counterpoint). "Amy Fusselman's second book, 8, just like her first work, The Pharmacist's Mate, packs an amazing amount of brutal, funny revelation...Her tools, wielded with total confidence, are nonchalant, ironic humor, her own life as a mother, hipster, and survivor of childhood rape, and potent metaphors involving a monster truck called Grave Digger and an aging Beastie Boy called Adrock...Fusselman's new book is...no less powerful—or goofy. 8 finds her living in Manhattan with two kids, and while most of the narrative, recounted in nonlinear mini-chapters, is about raising her children and learning to ride a motorcycle, the book's purpose and backbone is her adult struggle to break free from the man she calls 'my pedophile'...Required reading for any fan of monster trucks, white-boy rap, or the small victories of the human spirit." - Frances Reade, SF Weekly. For more information on the King County Sexual Assault Resource Center, visit http://www.kcsarc.org.

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