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RIVERHEAD Trade Paperback Just Added to February 2012
Other PeOPle
We Married
Emma Straub
978-1-59448-606-7 • $15.00/$16.00 Can.
Trade Paperback
224 pp./5 1/8” x 8”/Carton: 56/Stories
Rights: W00
UK, Translation, Audio: Riverhead Books
Other: Jenni Ferrari-Adler, Brick House Literary Agents
80 Fifth Avenue, Suite 1101, New York, NY 10011
Publishing History: FiveChapters Books trade paperback
978-0-982-93921-5 (2/11)
EAN: 9781594486067 51500
On sale February 7, 2012
suggested order
Photo © Allison Michael Orensetein
A rising literary star debuts with twelve
wry, poignant stories of love, hope, and
transformation.
In this vibrant debut collection, Emma Straub creates characters as
recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of
triumph and transformation with hilarity, vulnerability, and quietly
dazzling insight.
In “Some People Must Really Fall In Love,” an assistant professor takes
halting steps into the awkward, adult world of office politics and blind
dates while harboring feelings for one of her freshman students. Two grown
sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they stumble to
build a new relationship in “A Map of Modern Palm Springs.” Rome is the
setting of “Puttanesca,” as two young widows move tentatively forward,
still surrounded by ghosts and disappointments from the past.
These twelve stories, filled with the sharp humor, emotional acuity, and
joyful language that are sure to become Straub’s hallmarks, announce the
arrival of a major new talent.
“Emma Straub is a wry, witty, incisively observant writer.”
—Dan Chaon, author of Await Your Reply
“Other People We Married is a revelation.”
—Lorrie Moore, author of Birds of America and A Gate at the Stairs
MARKETING
• New York media and in-store author appearances
• Print features and reviews
• Online advertising, reviews and author interviews
• Reading group outreach
• Readers Guide available online
SALES POINTS
• The book was originally published by a small press and sold only via the
press’s website and at a handful of independent stores—and it still generated
amazing publicity in places such as The New York Times Book Review,
New York, Publishers Weekly, and more
• Straub is a bookseller at Brooklyn’s BookCourt, where she is an integral part of
the New York City independent bookselling community
• Riverhead will publish Straub’s debut novel, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures,
in hardcover in Fall 2012
Emma Straub’s fiction and nonfiction have been published by Slate, Tin House,
The Paris Review Daily, The Saint Ann’s Review, Cousin Corinne’s Reminder,
and many other journals. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband. Follow her on
Twitter @emmastraub and visit her website at emmastraub.net.
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