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Out now: Laia Jufresa’s WISHBONE.

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How was YOUR weekend? by @fffernbbbooks

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3 days ago

The magnificent octopus continues to tenderly ententacle the East Coast—this coming week at @wesleyan_u and in New York City. Come swim along. by @fffernbbbooks

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10 days ago

Today in First Sentence Fridays: WISHBONE, by @laia_jufresa out now from @fffernbbbooks . Jufresna will be at @possiblefuturesbooks tomorrow, 9/19! First Sentence Fridays celebrates the prose and process of new books. Contact @sunsetandecho at sarahmesle at gmail if you have a forthcoming book that might be a good fit! by @fffernbbbooks

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12 days ago

Join us next Tuesday, 9/22, at 7pm for a celebration of the publication of Wishbone, by Laia Jufresa, who will@be in conversation with Valeria Luiselli.

Laia Jufresa’s first book written in English, Wishbone is dreamy and precise, insightful and thrilling. Tor Sima is the founder of the International Museum of Color in Oaxaca. Vica Luft is a secretary and single mother in Edinburgh. Disparate as their lives are, they mirror and inform one another in striking ways: an early trauma, a shared lover, an affinity for the octopus.

Laia Jufresa is a Mexican author based in Edinburgh. She is the author of the widely acclaimed novel Umami and the memoir Veinte, veintiuno. In 2017 she was named one of the Bogotá39, a list of Latin America’s outstanding writers under forty. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages and appeared in McSweeney’s, Vogue, and El País, among others. Wishbone is her second novel.

Valeria Luiselli is an acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of Sidewalks, Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, Tell Me How It Ends and the international bestseller Lost Children Archive. Her most recent novel, Beginning Middle End, was released this year to critical and commercial success. She is the recipient of a 2019 MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, the Folio Prize, the Carnegie Medal and the 2021 International Dublin Literary Award. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She lives in New York City.
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This event is free to attend, and no reservation is needed. Books will be available for sale after the event. by @fffernbbbooks

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15 days ago

There is an old custom of throwing water at a traveler as they leave.

It’s Wishbone’s pub date today (!!!) and I’m at the door (by which I mean Dublin airport) holding a jar FULL to the brim to throw to my novel as it takes off.

Since e-water isn’t a thing yet, I’ve filled my jar with the next best thing: the kind words of fellow authors and booksellers who’ve read this book and wish it well.

Add a selfie for good measure: right after clearing customs with this question from the officer: “I assume you wrote it?”

Yes!

I wrote it but it’s no longer mine.

Happy pub date, dear Wishbone: go like water.

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Thank you elyurazo @valeria_luiselli @dsparis @agustinabazterrica @triasfernanda @sarahceniaminor @loriafeathers @bradjohnson1975 Sarah Moss, Sophie Hughes and Charlie Jones for your generosity. And thank you @fernbooks for making this book with me. by @fffernbbbooks

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Happy publication day to this breathtaking, heartbreaking, life-affirming, awe-inspiring, pastry-eating, compassionate, complex, ambitious, playful, wise, endlessly rich and profoundly human miracle of a novel. We couldn’t be prouder to help bring it into the world.

Buy WISHBONE at the link in our bio or through our pals at @asterism_books. And catch @laia_jufresa on her East Coast tour this week and next, starting tomorrow in Providence at @brown_hispanic_studies @complitatbrown @clacsbrownu with @laplateadona and @chapliniana. by @fffernbbbooks

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16 days ago

Two days! East Coast events start this week too! by @fffernbbbooks

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17 days ago

Brooklyn 9/24! With Catherine Barnett, who has better things to do than be on Instagram. Like read WISHBONE. by @fffernbbbooks

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21 days ago

Brooklyn 9/23! Laia in conversation with Natalia Sandoval. RSVP and tickets required. by @fffernbbbooks

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21 days ago

New hand who dis. by @fffernbbbooks

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21 days ago

Just over a week. Catch Laia live if you’re on the East Coast: fernfernfern.com/wishbone-events by @fffernbbbooks

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23 days ago

Please join us to celebrate Wishbone’s publication in the United States!

All the info at:

https://www.fernfernfern.com/wishbone-events

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East Coast! We’ve lined up a dazzling series of readings and talks to celebrate @laia_jufresa and the launch of her no less dazzling WISHBONE. Join us!

September 16 at 5.30 p.m. Providence, RI Brown University, Joukowsky Forum 155 (111 Thayer Street) with Michelle Clayton and Iris Montero  September 18 at 5.30 p.m. New Haven, CT Yale University, HQ 107 (320 York Street) with Mayte López  September 19, daytime event New Haven, CT Possible Futures (318 Edgewood Avenue)  September 21 at 12.15 p.m. Middletown, CT Wesleyan University, Shapiro Center (116 Mt. Vernon Street) with Andrea Armijos Echeverría  September 22 at 7 p.m. New York, NY 192 Books (192 Tenth Avenue) with Valeria Luiselli  September 23 at 7 p.m. Brooklyn, NY Café con Libros, Bk. (724 Prospect Place) Tickets required  September 24 at 7 p.m. Brooklyn, NY Community Bookstore (143 7th Avenue)
with Catherine Barnett by @fffernbbbooks

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