Author talk: Michael Alenyikov on Sorrow's Drive
Schedule
Thu Feb 02 2023 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm
Location
Fabulosa Books | San Francisco, CA
About this Event
About the book:
From a UN Peacekeeper searching for meaning in East Timor, to a lonely boy in San Francisco bonding with his dying bohemian grandmother as she recounts her last trip to Italy, to a middle aged man from Boston looking back on his first trip to pre-AIDS San Francisco, to a retired history professor in San Francisco driving cross country to the Boston of his youth, remembering his early struggles with being gay, while a star baseball player in high school and college in the 40s and 50s’s, these novellas sweep across continents, decades, and memories, capturing the aftermath of the loss of innocence.
About the author:
Michael Alenyikov’s short stories have appeared in Canada’s Descant (nominated for a 2007 Pushcart); The Georgia Review; New York Stories; Modern Words, The James White Review, and have been anthologized in Best Gay Stories, 2008 and Tartts Four: Incisive Fiction From Emerging Writers. His essays have appeared in The Gay & Lesbian Review. He was a MacDowell Fellow. Raised in New York City, Alenyikov has worked as a bookstore clerk, clinical psychologist, cab driver, and interactive media writer. He lives in San Francisco.
Praise for Sorrow's Drive:
“These four stunning novellas have an almost magical effect as Alenyikov masterfully weaves together disparate lives and universal themes into something approaching the sublime. He evokes the common goodness of people, as well as the common heartbreaking challenge that we all face and feel compelled to understand. Each story complements and clarifies the others in their exploration of family, of displacement and loneliness, of trying to find a way forward by looking back.”
—Trebor Healey, two time winner of the Ferro-Grumley Award, author of A Horse Named Sorrow.
“Michael Alenyikov’s Sorrow Drive is a remarkable achievement. Grief-struck and yet so full of life and love on every page, each of these four stories carry a great deal of emotional weight. Taken together the cumulative effect of the book is as glorious as it is sorrowful."
—Peter Orner, author of Still No Word from You: Notes in the Margin
Where is it happening?
Fabulosa Books, 489 Castro Street, San Francisco, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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