The novel was also an Indie Next Selection, an ALA-ALSC Rainbow List Selection, and a CCBC Choices Book.Martin Wilson is a volunteer, supporter and client of SRSB who has Stargardt Disease, so he has never known what perfect sight is. What They Always Tell Us won an Alabama Author Award for best young adult book, and was a nominee for children's/young adult literature category at the 2009 Lambda Literary Awards. Martin Wilson is best known for his award-winning debut novel What They Always Tell Us, published in 2008. The book is currently being optioned for film by director Amy Redford.
The novel was picked for B&N Discover Great New Writers, ABA Booksense 76, and the Los Angeles Times and Southern Critics Circle Best Book of the Year. Helen Ellis is the author of Eating the Cheshire Cat, a Southern Gothic about three teenage girls and the Alabama Society that twisted them. And when Alex takes up running, there is James's friend Nathen, who unites the brothers in moving and unexpected ways. But at home, there is Henry, the precocious 10-year-old across the street, who eagerly befriends them both. James and Alex in What They Always Tell Us have barely anything in common anymore least of all their experiences in high school, where James is a popular senior and Alex is suddenly an outcast. Vicious, fresh, and nutty as a poisoned Goo Goo Cluster, American Housewife is an uproarious, pointed commentary on womanhood. These twelve irresistible stories take us from a haunted prewar Manhattan apartment building to the set of a rigged reality television show, from the unique initiation ritual of a book club to the getaway car of a pageant princess on the lam, from the gallery opening of a tinfoil artist to the fitting room of a legendary lingerie shop. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies out of the oven. They pump the salad spinner like it's a CPR dummy. Meet the women of American Housewife: they wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it's cloudy. Avid Bookshop presents authors Helen Ellis and Martin Wilson for their respective books American Housewife and What They Always Tell Us. The event will take place in the shop on Thursday, January 14th, at 6:30 p.m.
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