The New People - In Conversation with Andrea Uptmor
About this Event
A searing and strikingly intimate debut set in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis, about a newly married lesbian couple who move into a flipped foreclosure, unaware that the former homeowners are still living in the attic.
Matchmaker Bookshop is thrilled to host debut author, Andrea Uptmor, for the release of her debut novel, The New People!
“In The New People, Uptmor moves through examinations of privilege
and identity, extraction and gentrification, politics and parenthood,
holding it all with a delicate sense of emotion that keeps this debut from
ever veering into the territory of diatribe. Instead, Uptmor successfully
balances the tender and intimate revelations about these two couples,
worlds apart and yet sharing the same roof over their heads, with a
sharp sense of humor and wry insights into the many ways the myth of
the American Dream leaves victims in its wake. The New People is a
carefully crafted story of what makes a house a home: the people that
share it, to be sure, but also the community built (or not) around it and
the many marks left, both good and bad, on the spaces inhabited.”—Shelf Awareness, Starred Review
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 0.00 to USD 33.88
