Join us as we celebrate the release of two new, unrelated works of literary fiction that concern themselves with nature and the environment, women’s intuition, and love of all kinds in a rapidly changing world.

In Heather Abel’s, The Emilys, a mother becomes obsessed with finding the cure to a mysterious ailment that is spreading throughout her New England town in this kaleidoscopic novel about love’s capacities to embrace change.

Eve is at a breaking point. Alone with her two children in Massachusetts while her husband pursues his music career in New York City, she’s frustrated, bored, and above all, lonely when she runs into Demeter, a childhood friend with whom she shared one transformative summer. Demeter is as beautiful and charismatic as Eve remembers, but she’s also distraught. Demeter’s daughter, like a growing number of others, young and old, cannot go outside during the day. No one knows why, and doctors are skeptical that these people — soon dubbed Emilys, after a famously reclusive local poet — are telling the truth. How will we learn to live in an altered world? How will we keep each other safe? And when the darkness comes, how will we find joy?

Artfully narrated, Kerri Schlottman’s Daytime Moon (Unnamed Press) is an unforgettable journey through hidden stories, the depths of women’s secrets, the shimmering fluidity of memory, and the magic of transmutation.

Years ago, Isa ran away from one coast to the other and never looked back, but when her brother Cole unexpectedly shows up on her stoop, she’s convinced that it’s time to go home. Back in the California desert, Isa is swept up in her former life of late-night drag races by the Salton Sea, beers with the locals, and haunting reminders of the twin sister she lost, and the mother she never got to meet. Traveling up and down California highways, through desert and forest, roaring coastline and border towns, Isa will follow the signs so delicately woven into the fabric of her life — a name, a constellation, a painting, a gleam of recognition on the water’s surface. If she can piece them together, she just might reunite the shattered remains of her beloved family.

Can’t make the event? Pre-order copies of The Emilys and Daytime Moon and we’ll get your book signed for you.

About the artists:

Heather Abel is the author of the novel The Optimistic Decade. She lives in Northampton, Massachusetts with her husband and teenagers and teaches creative writing at Smith College.

Kerri Schlottman is a writer of literary fiction novels. Her Tell Me One Thing was named a Storytrade Finalist, a PenCraft Fiction Award Winner, an American Book Fest Finalist, and a Shelf Awareness Best Book This Week. Kerri works to support artists, performers, and writers in creating new projects and is a part-time graduate professor at NYU in arts administration.