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SUMMARY:PrairieLights: Sara Levine – The Hitch
DESCRIPTION:Sara Levine will read from her new novel\, The Hitch. Describes as “a delightfully unhinged comedy following a woman as she attempts to exorcise the spirit of a dead corgi from her nephew and renegotiate the borders of her previously rational world” (sara-levine.com)\, The Hitch is praised by bestselling author Elizabeth Gilbert as “one of the most wildly comedic and unhinged novels I have ever encountered\, while at the same time also being deeply relatable and strangely emotionally accurate.” It’s also praised by Nathan Hill\, who says: “A hilarious\, madcap novel about our human obsession with getting life “right\,” and how the best laid plans can go astray\, especially when the dark haunted soul of a corgi gets involved. This is the book I’ll recommend to people as a test of their sense of humor: if they laugh at the corgi\, the yogurt crisis\, the hero who cannot recognize the obvious even when it’s chewing on her pant leg\, then I’ll know we’re destined to be friends.” \nSara Levine is the author of the novels The Hitch and Treasure Island!!!  and the short story collection Short Dark Oracles. She earned a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from Brown University and was awarded a Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities. She teaches creative writing at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is on Substack at Delusions of Grammar.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/prairielights-sara-levine-the-hitch/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
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