Join us on Friday, June 25 at 6pm PT when Jenny Bitner discusses her book, Here is a Game We Could Play
Broadcast live from Green Apple Books on Zoom
Join us in-person at our 9th Ave store or online at the link below
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Praise for Here is a Game We Could Play
"Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person, in its absence as much as its presence, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection, it is a 'terrible and beautiful thing.'"--Foreword Reviews, starred review
"Tender, yearning, and dangerously imagined. . . A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild."--Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying
"Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut."--Vanessa Hua, author of A River of Stars
About Here is a Game We Could Play
This original, funny, and moving novel follows Claudia, a loner with an active fantasy life, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships.
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in--a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium, loneliness, and her obsessive fear of poisoning, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover, to whom she addresses letters about her life, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios.
In each fantasy, her lover takes a different form, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms' fairy tale, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity--building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose, the town's new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past--the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed.
Funny, dark, inventive, and moving, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender, Angela Carter, Rebecca Brown, and Margaret Atwood.
About Jenny Bitner
Jenny Bitner's stories, essays, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, PANK, Fence, Mississippi Review, The Fabulist, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
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Broadcast live from Green Apple Books on Zoom
Join us in-person at our 9th Ave store or online at the link below
PLEASE NOTE THAT AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES WHILE IN THE STORE
Zoom Registration
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_N1wouFxsTXyQsC9PRyw7_g
Praise for Here is a Game We Could Play
"Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person, in its absence as much as its presence, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection, it is a 'terrible and beautiful thing.'"--Foreword Reviews, starred review
"Tender, yearning, and dangerously imagined. . . A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild."--Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying
"Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut."--Vanessa Hua, author of A River of Stars
About Here is a Game We Could Play
This original, funny, and moving novel follows Claudia, a loner with an active fantasy life, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships.
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in--a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium, loneliness, and her obsessive fear of poisoning, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover, to whom she addresses letters about her life, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios.
In each fantasy, her lover takes a different form, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms' fairy tale, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity--building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose, the town's new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past--the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed.
Funny, dark, inventive, and moving, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender, Angela Carter, Rebecca Brown, and Margaret Atwood.
About Jenny Bitner
Jenny Bitner's stories, essays, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, PANK, Fence, Mississippi Review, The Fabulist, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
Join us on Friday, June 25 at 6pm PT when Jenny Bitner discusses her book, Here is a Game We Could Play
Broadcast live from Green Apple Books on Zoom
Join us in-person at our 9th Ave store or online at the link below
PLEASE NOTE THAT AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES WHILE IN THE STORE
Zoom Registration
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_N1wouFxsTXyQsC9PRyw7_g
Praise for Here is a Game We Could Play
"Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person, in its absence as much as its presence, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection, it is a 'terrible and beautiful thing.'"--Foreword Reviews, starred review
"Tender, yearning, and dangerously imagined. . . A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild."--Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying
"Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut."--Vanessa Hua, author of A River of Stars
About Here is a Game We Could Play
This original, funny, and moving novel follows Claudia, a loner with an active fantasy life, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships.
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in--a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium, loneliness, and her obsessive fear of poisoning, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover, to whom she addresses letters about her life, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios.
In each fantasy, her lover takes a different form, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms' fairy tale, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity--building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose, the town's new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past--the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed.
Funny, dark, inventive, and moving, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender, Angela Carter, Rebecca Brown, and Margaret Atwood.
About Jenny Bitner
Jenny Bitner's stories, essays, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, PANK, Fence, Mississippi Review, The Fabulist, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
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Broadcast live from Green Apple Books on Zoom
Join us in-person at our 9th Ave store or online at the link below
PLEASE NOTE THAT AUDIENCE MEMBERS ARE REQUIRED TO WEAR A MASK AT ALL TIMES WHILE IN THE STORE
Zoom Registration
https://us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../WN_N1wouFxsTXyQsC9PRyw7_g
Praise for Here is a Game We Could Play
"Capturing just how much belonging shapes a person, in its absence as much as its presence, the novel strains between those two poles; like any true connection, it is a 'terrible and beautiful thing.'"--Foreword Reviews, starred review
"Tender, yearning, and dangerously imagined. . . A book to pluck you out of your cage and reintroduce you to the wild."--Ben Loory, author of Tales of Falling and Flying
"Here Is a Game We Could Play is a piercing and poignant novel with an unforgettable narrator. A haunting debut."--Vanessa Hua, author of A River of Stars
About Here is a Game We Could Play
This original, funny, and moving novel follows Claudia, a loner with an active fantasy life, as she reckons with past trauma and forms new relationships.
A dreamlike novel set in Pennsylvania in the 1990s, Here Is a Game We Could Play is the story of Claudia, an intelligent eccentric trapped in the rundown industrial town she grew up in--a place plagued with troubling memories and hidden threats. Seeking escape from tedium, loneliness, and her obsessive fear of poisoning, Claudia retreats into books. . . and into a fantasy life with her perfect lover, to whom she addresses letters about her life, all the while imagining outlandish sexual scenarios.
In each fantasy, her lover takes a different form, ranging from a prison guard in a world where metaphor is forbidden, to a more-than-brotherly Hansel from the Grimms' fairy tale, to a tentacled mind-reading space alien. All share a desire for a deep intimacy that eludes Claudia, even as she forms new real-life relationships and reconsiders her sexual identity--building a rapport with an elderly volunteer at the library, striking up a friendship with a wily temp at her dead-end job, and embarking on a passionate affair with Rose, the town's new librarian. When paranoia threatens to ruin her relationship with Rose, Claudia is forced not only to combat her anxiety but to face the unresolved trauma in her past--the disappearance of her father on a night she has long repressed.
Funny, dark, inventive, and moving, Here Is a Game We Could Play is an original debut novel recalling the work of Aimee Bender, Angela Carter, Rebecca Brown, and Margaret Atwood.
About Jenny Bitner
Jenny Bitner's stories, essays, and poems have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, PANK, Fence, Mississippi Review, The Fabulist, and The Sun. She works as a hypnotherapist and writing teacher and is a member of the San Francisco Writers' Grotto.
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