YOU DON'T KNOW ME by James Nolan is Now Available

In this collection of interrelated short stories, James Nolan swings wide open the courtyard gates of a city fabled both for its good times and bad. With ten new stories plus ten from his acclaimed previous volume, Perpetual Care, he introduces us to a quirky village of universal characters at crisis moments: white, black, and Hispanic; young, middle-aged, and elderly; straight and gay; women and men. We meet fatherless boys, Creole spinsters, and lying hustlers, a pregnant teenager, a concert pianist searching for his roots, a crooked homicide detective, a Carnival-parade king hiding in a Dunkin' Donuts, a pistol-packing babysitter, and a codger who plots to blow up an overpass. Bookended by two post-Katrina stories, this collection takes us from the secretive hive of the French Quarter to decaying cemeteries, from Gentilly to Uptown to family dramas in the suburbs. With mordant dark humor, James Nolan paints a wry, disturbing but affectionately human portrait of his hometown for those who think they already know New Orleans, and what it means. But until you turn the addictive pages of these stories, you don't--not really.

Softcover, 296 pp., $20.00

ISBN: 9781935754343

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Reading and Signing Schedule

Book Launch

Thursday, October 2, 2014

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Garden District Books

2727 Prytania St.

New Orleans, LA

Reading and signing

Thursday, October 23, 2014

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Octavia Books

513 Octavia St.

New Orleans, LA

Reading and signing

Saturday, November 1, 2014

Louisiana Book Festival

Louisiana State Capital and State Library

Baton Rouge, LA

Check festival website at www.louisianabookfestival.org for schedule.

Reading and signing

Thursday, November 6, 2014

6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Maple Street Books

7529 Maple St.

New Orleans, LA

Reading and signing Thursday, November 20, 2014 9:45 am Words and Music Festival Monteleone Hotel New Orleans, LA

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