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 .

Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction (Hardcover)

By Amy Bloom

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9781400063574
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Published: Random House, 01/01/2010

The New York Times-bestselling author of Away returns with a collection of stories showing the beautiful flaws of humanity. Amy Bloom gets more meaning into individual sentences than most authors manage in whole books. - The New Yorker.

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Away (Paperback)

By Amy Bloom

$14.00

ISBN-13: 9780812977790
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 06/01/2008

Panoramic in scope, Away is the epic and intimate story of young Lillian Leyb, a dangerous innocent, an accidental heroine. When her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian comes to America alone, determined to make her way in a new land. When word comes that her daughter, Sophie, might still be alive, Lillian embarks on an odyssey that takes her from the world of the Yiddish theater on New York’s Lower East Side, to Seattle’s Jazz District, and up to Alaska, along the fabled Telegraph Trail toward Siberia. All of the qualities readers love in Amy Bloom’s work–her humor and wit, her elegant and irreverent language, her unflinching understanding of passion and the human heart–come together in the embrace of this brilliant novel, which is at once heartbreaking, romantic, and completely unforgettable.

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A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You: Stories (Paperback)

By Amy Bloom

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9780375705571
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Published: Vintage, 07/01/2001

Amy Bloom was nominated for a National Book Award for her first collection, Come to Me, and her fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Story, Antaeus, and other magazines, and in The Best American Short Stories and Prize Stories: The O. Henry Awards. In her new collection, she enhances her reputation as a true artist of the form. Here are characters confronted with tragedy, perplexed by emotions, and challenged to endure whatever modern life may have in store. A loving mother accompanies her daughter in her journey to become a man, and discovers a new, hopeful love. A stepmother and stepson meet again after fifteen years and a devastating mistake, and rediscover their familial affection for each other. And in "The Story," a widow bent on seducing another woman's husband constructs and deconstructs her story until she has "made the best and happiest ending" possible "in this world."

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Love Invents Us (Paperback)

By Amy Bloom

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9780375750229
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Vintage, 01/01/1998

National Book Award finalist Amy Bloom has written a tale of growing up that is sharp and funny, rueful and uncompromisingly real. A chubby girl with smudged pink harlequin glasses and a habit of stealing Heath Bars from the local five-and-dime, Elizabeth Taube is the only child of parents whose indifference to her is the one sure thing in her life. When her search for love and attention leads her into the arms of her junior-high-school English teacher, things begin to get complicated. And even her friend Mrs. Hill, a nearly blind, elderly black woman, can't protect her when real love--exhilarating, passionate, heartbreaking--enters her life in the gorgeous shape of Huddie Lester. With her finely honed style and her unflinching sensibility, Bloom shows us how profoundly the forces of love and desire can shape a life.

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