ANDREW SEAN GREER
Wednesday, May 21 at 7:30 p.m.

Another in a nice run of welcome returns to Seattle and Elliott Bay is made this evening by nationally acclaimed fiction writer Andrew Sean Greer. Author of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, How It Was for Me, and The Path of Minor Planets, he is up from his San Francisco home for his much-anticipated new novel, The Story of a Marriage (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). "As he demonstrated in the imaginative The Confessions of Max Tivoli, Greer can spin a touching narrative based on an intriguing premise. Even a diligent reader will be surprised by the revelations twisting through this novel and will probably turn back to the beginning pages to find the oblique hints hidden in Greer's crystalline prose ... This is a sensitive exploration of the secrets hidden even in intimate relationships, a poignant account of people helpless in the throes of passion and an affirmation of the strength of the human spirit." – Publishers Weekly. "This is a haunting book of breathtaking beauty and restraint. Greer's tone-perfect prose conjures an unforgettable woman who exists both within and somehow above the stifling class, racial, and sexual constraints of 1950s America—and who must unravel the great mystery of her place within it." – Dave Eggers.

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