Diesel, A Bookstore in Oakland is pleased to welcome store favorite Amy Bloom to discuss and sign her new book, Where the God of Love Hangs Out, an astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories that illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship
on Saturday, February 6th, at 3pm.

Amy Bloom is the author of Away, chosen as one of the best books of 2007 by more than ten newspapers, a #1 LA Times bestseller and a #3 New York Times bestseller, with over 300,000 copies in print. She is also author of the acclaimed story collection Come to Me, a National Book Award finalist, and A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; a novel, Love Invents Us, and a nonfiction work, Normal. She has written for The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, Vogue, Slate, and Salon, among other publications, and has won a National Magazine Award. Bloom teaches creative writing at Yale University .