Katherine Taylor Author Event

Katherine Taylor Author Event

We are pleased to welcome the delightful Katherine Taylor back to the store to celebrate her latest novel, Valley Fever. Katherine will join us on Friday, July 17th from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. for a free wine and cheese event. Reservations are requested for this event. For more information, or to reserve your space, please contact us at 231.347.1180 or send us an email

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A razor-sharp, cross-generational tragicomedy set in California's wine-soaked Central Valley.

Ingrid Palamede never returns to places she's lived in the past. For her, "whole neighborhoods, whole cities, can be ruined by the reasons you left." But when a breakup leaves her heartbroken and homeless, she's forced to return to her childhood home of Fresno, California. Back in the real wine country, where grapes are grown for mass producers like Gallo and Kendall-Jackson, Ingrid must confront her aging parents and their financial woes, soured friendships, and blissfully bad decisions. But along the way, she rediscovers her love for the land, her talent for harvesting grapes, and a deep fondness and forgiveness for the very first place she ever left.

With all the sharp-tongued wit of her first novel, Rules for Saying Goodbye, Katherine Taylor examines high-class, small-town life among the grapes--on the vine or soaked in vodka--in Valley Fever, a blisteringly funny, ferociously intelligent, and deeply moving novel of self-discovery.

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Katherine is the author of the novels Valley Fever (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2015) and  Rules for Saying Goodbye (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2007). Her stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, Elle, Town & Country, ZYZZYVA, The Southwest Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications. She has won a Pushcart Prize and the McGinnis Ritchie Award for Fiction. She has a B.A. from University of Southern California and a master’s degree from Columbia University, where she was a Graduate Writing Fellow. Katherine lives in Los Angeles.

Event date: 
Friday, July 17, 2015 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Event address: 
307 E Lake St.
49770 Petoskey
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Rules for Saying Goodbye: A Novel By Katherine Taylor Cover Image
$23.00
ISBN: 9780312427870
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 Days
Published: Picador - May 27th, 2008

In the world of Kate Taylor, heroine of Rules for Saying Goodbye, pleasure and melancholy are close neighbors--like the summer hats and lobster boilers squashed together in the tiny closet of her Manhattan apartment.