Watchung Booksellers welcomes Marina Antropow Cramer, author of Winners and Losers, in conversation with author Nancy Burke.
About the event:
Tickets are $5 and required for entry ($7 at door). Ticket purchase includes a 10% discount on the book at the event.
About the book:
Lily knows what she wants. She wants to know the meaning of the postcards her absent father sends her – cryptic words and images that reveal nothing of his life or feelings. Once she makes up her fourteen-year-old mind, she doesn’t hesitate to leave her grandmother and travel cross-country to intrude on Herman, the reclusive great-uncle she barely knows, who might hold some clues.
Isn’t that what family is for?
In Winners and Losers, a teenage runaway and a gruff old man come to realize, each in their way, that knowledge need not mean having all the answers, while they attempt to fathom the connection between obligation and love.
About the author:
Marina Antropow Cramer is the child of post-WWII Russian refugees from the Soviet Union. Her work has appeared in Blackbird, Wilderness House, Bloom Literary Magazine, Hobart’s NOW, Comstock Review, Pure Slush, and the other side of hope literary journal, among other print and online publications. She has served as a workshop instructor at various conferences and festivals. She is the author of the novels Roads (Chicago Review Press), Anna Eva Mimi Adam (RunAmok Books), Marfa’s River, and Winners and Losers (Apprentice House Press), and lives in New York’s Hudson Valley.
About the moderator:
Nancy Burke the author of Death Cleaning and Other Units of Measure and three earlier books, including Only the Women are Burning, published in October 2020. Nancy earned her MFA at Rutgers in 2011. She is at work on a musical adaptation of her first novel, From the Abuelas' Window. She teaches at MSU and NJIT.
