A Night of New Fiction from Independent Presses Ft. Audrey Schulman and Leigh Stein

Join us as we celebrate the release of new works from two of our favorite indies: Europa Editions and Melville House.

In Three Weeks in December, Canadian author Audrey Schulman uses her vast travels and painstaking research to weave together the stories of two adventurers separated by 100 years: an American engineer contracted to build a railroad across British East Africa whose workers start to disappear when lions stalk the camps, and an ethnobotanist caught between the beautiful mountain gorillas and violent fighters of Rwanda as she seeks a cure for heart disease.

Former New Yorker staffer Leigh Stein has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and won Poets & Writers’ Amy Award. In The Fallback Plan, Esther is a recent college grad with no job prospects until her neighbors need a new babysitter. But what starts as a simple stop-gap job becomes more complicated as her employers’ family begins to crack, and she finds herself in the roles of confidante and partner-in-crime. Gary Shteyngart calls it, “Beautiful, funny, thrilling and true.”