For
immediate release
Press contacts:
Larissa Shmailo
212-712-9865
Regina Khidekel
Russian Launch Party for Larissa
Shmailo’s Patient Women
Uncle
Vanya’s
315
West 54th Street
New
York, NY
212-757-0168
Tuesday, September 8,
2015
7:00 to 10 pm
FREE; open to the public
New York City. A real Russian launch party will celebrate the
publication of poet Larissa Shmailo’s debut novel, Patient Women, on September 8.
Sponsored by the Russian American Culture Center, the event features the
talents of a glittering host of prominent Eastern European and New York City
literary figures, including Alex Cigale, Steve Dalachinsky, Bonny Finberg,
Andrey Gritsman, Patricia Spears Jones, Ron Kolm, Irina Mashinski, Yuko Otomo,
Audrey Roth, and Thad Rutkowski.
About Patient Women
Patient Women has been called “a brutally honest wrestling match of truth-telling and
sex”
and “the best book . . . about this period of life in NYC since Patti Smith's Just Kids.” Thaddeus Rutkowski, author
of Haywire, writes:
Larissa Shmailo’s Patient Women tells the story of
Nora, a gifted young woman who comes of age in New York against heavy odds. Her
Russian mother is demanding; the young men around her are uncaring; and her
dependence on drink and sex leads her to a shadowy life filled with self-made demons.
Yet Nora’s intelligence pulls her through the difficult times—there are even
moments of (very) dark humor here.
Anne
Elliott, author of The
Beginning of the End of the Beginning, adds:
Christ-figures
are likely to be cross-dressers in this engaging bildungsroman, which takes us
on a wild ride through NYC nightclubs of the 1970's, rock-bottom blackouts, a
whorehouse, and the slogan-filled rooms of recovery. Surreal and lyrical, then
bawdy and riotous, then plainspoken and tragic, Patient Women had me rooting hard for its lovable, drowning heroine
to keep her head above water and let in grace.
The Russian
American Cultural Center
The
Russian American Cultural Center (RACC) sponsors readings, art exhibitions, film
screenings, and other events of interest throughout New York; for more information
about RACC, see their website at http://www.russianamericanculture.com/
The
launch party for Patient Women is
free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing
by the author at the event. Patient Women
is also available on Amazon at
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