Leslie Daniels: Cleaning Nabokov's House *at Longfellow Books*
03/15/2012 7:00 pm
Cleaning Nobokov's House by Leslie Daniels Thursday, March 15th, 7:00 pm at Longfellow Books
"Some chutzpah first-time novelist Daniels has, writing a comic
woman-in-distress novel involving the literary master Nabokov and a
country cathouse. Daniels' crazy melange catches fire because her
out-of-the-box narrator is hilarious, chaotic, and surprisingly
resourceful. Wardrobe-challenged Barb, who is inordinately fond of
toast, loses custody of her kids in a vicious divorce. Missing her life
in New York City, she finds tiny Onkwedo, her ex's upstate hometown,
stifling. But there she must stay to fight for her little goth daughter
and young gourmet son. Using her inheritance from her much-missed
father, Barb buys a funky little house once occupied by Nabokov when he
taught at the local college and discovers a hidden manuscript. Is it
Nabokov's? She also has an entrepreneurial brainstorm about how to
lively up the glum women of Onkwedo. Daniels is warmly funny and
audacious in this shrewd and saucy mix of family drama, gender discord,
sexual healing, and high literature; a raucous yet sensitive tale of one
quirky woman's struggle to overcome the lowest of low self-esteem to
get motherhood and love right." -Booklist
Leslie Daniels will join us at Longfellow Books for a reading and signing on Thursday, March 15th at 7:00 pm. Call or e-mail to let us know if you'd like a book signed for you!
Cleaning Nobokov's House by Leslie Daniels
