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What better way to celebrate the month of love, than with one of our most beloved authors, AMY BLOOM?

Bloom, the author of the national bestseller Away, and two collections of prize-winning stories, Come to Me and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, will be at Bookshop to debut her newest title, Where the God of Love Hangs Out. Celebrating love in its many forms and complexities, this new collection is made up of both stand-alone stories and interconnected vignettes.  Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose and unmistakable voice, she takes us into the depths of characters that hit as real, and explores the changes that love and loss create in their lives.

In one quartet of interlocking stories, two middle-aged friends, married to others, find themselves surprisingly drawn to each other, risking all while never underestimating the cost. In another linked set of stories, we follow mother and son for thirty years as their small and uncertain family becomes an irresistible tribe.

Insightful, sensuous, and heartbreaking, these stories of passion and disappointment, life and death, capture deep human truths. As The New Yorker has said, "Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books."

Simply put, reading doesn’t get better than Amy Bloom and we’re head-over-heels for her.  Come be dazzled yourself!

Photo by Beth Kelly