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Book talk & signing with Santa Cruz native Molly Prentiss
Join us in welcoming Santa Cruz native Molly Prentiss for her debut novel, Tuesday Nights in 1980.
Join us in welcoming Santa Cruz native Molly Prentiss for her debut novel, Tuesday Nights in 1980—a riveting exploration of fame, humanity, art, and loss.
1980 in New York City: As SoHo and the downtown arts scene are bursting with energy and artistic fervor—when Basquiat, Haring, Koons, and Warhol are producing their most famous works—art is becoming luxury, commentary, commodity. New York is pulsating with creativity, but commercialization is about to move across town like a steamroller.
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This is the story of how, over the course of one year, the fates of James, Raul and Lucy reach epic heights, only to crash down when each suffers a personal trauma that forces them to face a world in which the very thing that defines them is taken away. When you lose the thing that defines you, who do you become?
Molly Prentiss was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California. She was a Writer in Residence at Workspace at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and at the Blue Mountain Center and was chosen as an Emerging Writer Fellow by the Aspen Writers Foundation. She holds an MFA in creative writing from the California College of the Arts and now lives in Brooklyn.
