I AM PARTNERING WITH PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE FOR THIS GIVEAWAY
ALL INFORMATION IN THIS POST IS COURTESY OF Madeline Schmitz
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Quick Take:
Stacey Lane feels like a monster. Tommy DeMarco might be one. Since her
husband died eight months ago, Stacey’s been a certified mess—an
acclaimed poet who can’t write anymore, a good mother who feels like
she’s failing her kids. She’s been trying to redefine
herself, to find new boundaries. Tommy has no respect for boundaries. A
surprisingly well-read A-list Hollywood star, Tommy’s fallen in love
with Stacey’s novel-in-verse, a feminist reimagining of Frankenstein, no
less. His passion for the book, and eventually
its author, will set their lives on a collision course. They’ll make a
movie, make each other crazy, and make love—but only in secret. As
Stacey travels between her humdrum life in the suburbs of Omaha and the
glamorous but fleeting escape Tommy offers, what
begins as a distracting affair starts to pick up weight. It’s a weight
that unbalances Stacey’s already unsteady life, but offers new depth to
Tommy’s. Riveting, poignant and always surprising,
MONSTERS: A LOVE STORY reveals
how meeting the right person can be as much brutal as it is
breathtaking. With Liz Kay’s beautiful spare prose and snappy dialogue,
the novel deftly details the ways we love, even when
we’re not at our best, and delivers an eminently satisfying love story.
Jill Alexander Essbaum,
New York Times-bestselling author of Hausfrau raved, “Witty and so nimbly-worded, Liz Kay’s
Monsters: A Love Story had me at hello.”
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Liz
Kay holds an MFA from the University of Nebraska, where she was the
recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize. She is a founding
editor of Spark Wheel Press and the journal
burntdistrict. Her work has appeared in Willow Springs, Nimrod,
RHINO, Sugar House Review, and Beloit Poetry Journal,
and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best New Poets
anthology. She lives in Omaha, Nebraska with her husband and three
children.
Selected Praise for MONSTERS: A LOVE STORY:
“The unlikely romance between a feminist poet and the Hollywood heartthrob who options her book is at the center
of Kay’s entertainingly dyspeptic Monsters.”
–Vogue
“In the tradition of Lolly Winston’s Good Grief . . .
this fast-paced novel will have readers immersed in the heady feeling of
an alcohol-fueled affair with one of the sexiest men alive.”
–Library Journal (starred review)
“Witty and so nimbly-worded, Monsters had me at hello. From
the near-madcap improbability of the novel’s premise, to the punchy
repartee and ping-pong banter between Stacey and Tommy, it’s impossible
to resist the book’s charms. .”
–Jill Alexander Essbaum, New York Times bestselling author of Hausfrau
“A perfectly imperfect love story . . . Kay has created a
heartfelt, sometimes dark but ultimately romantic story about what
happens when two broken people come together.”
–BookPage
“A smart, satirical feminist novel, but as the subtitle suggests, it's also a romance.”
–Shelf Awareness
“I love to see truth in writing when it comes to love and relationships . . . [Monsters is] an electric, fast-moving novel.”
–B&N Reads
“Monsters is an addictive read: a page-turner that is at
once dark and uplifting, shocking and hopeful. Kay's book takes a sharp
spin on the notion of fairy tale romance.”
–Janelle Brown, bestselling author of All We Ever Wanted Was Everything
"At times somber, at times heartwarming, the story of this
improbable romance is an addictive page-turner, ripe with seduction and
charm, that drops insights into this messy, crazy, wonderful thing
called love.."
–Washington Independent Review of Books
“This one will make you laugh and cry, but Kay’s debut novel,
about a poet grappling with the death of her husband, is a must-read. A
smart look at grief and how we bounce back from it, Monsters is fast-paced and completely addictive.”
–Purewow, Ultimate Summer 2016 Book Pick
“The novel’s wry insights into messy relationships put me in mind of The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. and Emma Straub’s The Vacationers.”
–Timothy Schaffert, critically acclaimed author of The Swan Gondola
“This edgy and entertaining novel would make a great beach read.”
–Lucy Sykes, author of The Knockoff
“The meeting of kindred spirits is often as punishing as it is
beguiling. When monsters fall in love, it is impossible not to watch,
impossible to put the book down.”
–Rebecca Rotert, author of Last Night at the Blue Angel
“A deeply felt and modern day spin on the fairy tale notion of happily-ever-after. . . Smart, fun, sexy writing.”
–Mark Haskell Smith, author of Raw: A Love Story
“Monsters is smart, witty, hilarious, raunchy, irresistible, and full of crackling dialogue.”
–Catherine Texier, author of Victorine
“Reads like a seduction. I couldn’t stop. . . Monsters they may be, but vulnerable monsters with hearts full of yearning.”
–Amy Hassinger, author of The Priest’s Madonna
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The giveaway copy is "Courtesy of Penguin Random House." I am partnering with Penguin Random House for this giveaway.
GIVEAWAY:
USA ONLY
August 16 - August 23
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