Blue Bicycle Books, Charleston, SC

The Lines Release Party with Anthony Varallo, Fri., Aug. 30, 6 pm

Join us Fri., Aug. 30, 6 pm as we celebrate the release of our friend Anthony Varallo’s first novel The Lines (University of Iowa Press, pb., 230 pp., $17).

Set in the summer of 1979, when America was running out of gas, The Lines tells the story of a family of four—the mother, the father, the girl, and the boy—in the first months of a marital separation. Through alternating perspectives, we follow the family as they explore new territory, new living arrangements, and new complications. The mother returns to school. The father moves into an apartment. The girl squares off with her mother, while the boy struggles to make sense of the world. The Lines explores the way we are all tied to one another, and how all experience offers the possibility of love and connection as much as loss and change.

Anthony Varallo is the author of four short story collections: Everyone Was There, winner of the Elixir Press Fiction Award; This Day in History, winner of the John Simmons Short Fiction Award; Out Loud, winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize; and Think of Me and I’ll Know. Currently he is a professor of English at the College of Charleston, where he is also the fiction editor of Crazyhorse.

 

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