Twelve authors based in or near Western North Carolina celebrate Malaprop's 30th Anniversary with their contributions to the serial collaborative novel, Naked Came the Leaf Peeper. John P. McAfee, Susan Reinhardt, Vicki Lane, Tommy Hays, Wayne Caldwell, Fred Chappell, Alan Gratz, Annette Clapsaddle, Gene Cheek, and Linda Marie Barrett outdid themselves as they built upon a story arc brilliantly imagined in the first chapter by Brian Lee Knopp and brought to a laugh-out-loud finish by Tony Earley.
Staff favorite Gary Shteyngart returns to Malaprop’s with the paperback release of Super Sad True Love Story, the book that The New York Times called “a
cutting comic portrait of a futuristic
America, nearly ungovernable and perched on the abyss of fiscal
collapse, and at the same time it is a novel that chronicles a sweetly
real love affair as it blossoms from its awkward, improbable
beginnings.”