Happy Pub Day to GUESSWORK

Today marks the official release of Martha Cooley’s wise and lyrical memoir, Guesswork: A Reckoning With Loss. You can now find this beautiful book online and at your favorite independent bookstore (maybe this upcoming indie bookstore day!).

Through sixteen essays, Cooley, bestselling author of The Archivist, recounts a year spent in a small Italian village, grappling with the deaths of multiple friends and anticipating the loss of her parents. Despite the heaviness of this task, she holds it lightly in her hands, transforming a year in a pastoral hill town into a fierce examination of life, love, death, and, ultimately, release. The Wall Street Journal raved: “Through evocative imagery and invocations of the poetry of Eliot, Dickinson and Whitman, [Cooley] reminds us that art can bring solace and clarity to the greatest pain.”

We’re incredibly proud of Martha and her book, and we hope you’ll love it as much as we do. You can read more about Guesswork and order a copy here, and be sure to check out Matt Seidel’s thoughtful review for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Martha may be in your neighborhood soon! Join her at one of several events celebrating Guesswork:

• 5/6/2017 2pm: a reading at Open Book, 7900 High School road, Elkins Park, PA

• 5/10/2017 8pm: A panel on the art of writing about grief at Center for Fiction, 17 E 47th St. (in conversation with Max Winter and Charles Bock, moderated by Mira Jacob)

• 5/24/2017 7pm: A reading with Doug Bauer at Newtonville Books, 10 Langley Rd, Newtonville, MA

• 6/5/2017 7:30 pm: A reading with Anne Germanacos at Green Apple Books on the Park, 1231 9th Ave., San Francisco, CA

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