Novelist Audrey Schulman

NOVELIST AUDREY SCHULMAN READS FROM HER NEW BOOK @ WEST TISBURY LIBRARY              

Thursday August 2 @ 5pm Audrey Schulman will read from her new book Three Weeks in December (Europa Editions 2012) Refreshments will be served.  Free & open to the public.             

The New York Times Sunday Book Review calls Three Weeks in December “remarkably fresh, complex and memorable...”  In 1899 Jeremy, a young engineer, leaves a small town in Maine to oversee the construction of a railroad across East Africa. In charge of hundreds of Indian laborers, he soon finds himself the reluctant hunter of two lions that are killing his men in almost nightly attacks on their camp. Plagued by fear, wracked with malaria and alienated by a secret he can tell no one, he takes increasing solace in the company of the African who helps him hunt.

In 2000 Max, an American ethnobotonist, travels to Rwanda in search of an obscure vine that could become a lifesaving pharmaceutical. Stationed in the mountains, she closely shadows a family of gorillas, the last of their group to survive the encroachment of local poachers.  Max bears a striking gift for understanding the ape's non-verbal communication, but their precarious solidarity is threatened as a violent rebel group from the nearby Congo draws close.

Schulman is also the author of three previous novels The Cage, Swimming with Jonah and A House Named Brazil.  Her books have been translated into 11 languages, reviewed by the New Yorker and twice been selected as notable books by the American Library Association.  

She now lives near Boston with her family and runs an energy-efficiency nonprofit called HEET.