Author Talk with Abby Mendelson

Listen to an author talk with Abby Mendelson, award-winning author of Paradise Boys, Scotch and Oranges, Ghost Dancer, End of the Road, and The Oakland Quartet. His presentation will focus on his new book, Reunion: Americans in Exile, a striking new collection of 16 stories chronicling the lives of Americans torn from their places and their pasts. Set in a wide variety of locales – England to Hawaii, Venice to Vietnam, Park Slope to Prague, Block Island to Hoonah, Alaska – the stories go where Americans find themselves searching for connection, coping with aging and loss. Military men and missing persons, foreign service officers and fashion models, friends and lovers, grief groups and high-school reunions, Reunion presents a stunning series of portraits of characters and concerns, living and dying, present and past. People wrestling with the concerns of age and of our age. People living on edges, seeking to return, yearning for reunion.

Abby will have copies to sell and all proceeds will be donated to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank.