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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:Julie Buntin
DESCRIPTION:Literati is thrilled to welcome Julie Buntin to celebrate the release of *Famous Men*. She will be joined in conversation by Lillian Li.\n\nAbout the Book: From the acclaimed author of *Marlena* comes a vivid\, uncompromising novel about a young woman looking for a father and finding herself.\n\nWill Miles is trapped. Trapped in tiny Greening\, Michigan\, where a toxic high school rumor has turned her into a social exile. Trapped in the predictable routines of her mother\, and under the unrelenting gaze of her mother’s increasingly sinister boyfriend. But when Will stumbles across the early poems of Nathaniel Fellow\, a famous writer forty years her senior who also grew up in Greening\, she feels she’s found a kindred spirit. A passing comment from her mother only adds to Will’s fascination: Is Nathaniel the father she’s never known?\n\nWill orchestrates a plan to track Nathaniel down\, following in his footsteps to New York City\, where she learns he’s not the answer to her past\, not the way she imagined. But their meeting sparks a complicated\, consuming relationship that gives Will sidelong access to a world she’s only ever imagined: of writers and intellectuals\, a financial safety net\, and\, most intoxicatingly\, a glimpse into her own potential. But who is Nathaniel Fellow\, off the page? And what will shaping her life to suit his cost her? When a torrent of information about his past threatens not just her life with Nathaniel\, but the story she tells herself about him\, Will is faced with a choice that will change everything.\n\nA gripping novel about ambition\, parents and children\, and all the ways women still pay for men’s mistakes\, *Famous Men* traces one woman’s journey to the truth of where she comes from\, what she’s capable of\, and how she might start again.\n\nJulie Buntin is the co-editor of *Notes to New Mothers*\, a collection of dispatches from postpartum life by sixty writers and artists. Her debut novel\, *Marlena*\, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, released in ten territories worldwide\, and named a best book of the year by over a dozen outlets\, including *The Washington Post*\, *NPR*\, and *Kirkus Reviews*. Previously\, Buntin was an editor and director of writing programs at Catapult. Now\, she writes and teaches in Ann Arbor\, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.\n\nLillian Li is the author of the novel *Bad Asians*\, and *Number One Chinese Restaurant*\, which was an NPR Best Book\, and longlisted for the Women’s Prize and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her work has been published in the *New York Times*\, *Granta*\, and *The Guardian*\, among others. Originally from the D.C. metro area\, she lives in Ann Arbor.
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CATEGORIES:English Language And Literature,Reading
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