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“Waclawiak pivots from the coastal Connecticut setting of The Invaders for a bleak, atmospheric foray through the deserts and valleys around Los Angeles.Waclawiak maintains a gloomy tone through well-observed details of the landscape which mixes well with Evelyn’s wry irreverence. there is much to applaud in the manner in which heroine honestly assesses her limitations and acknowledges her pain." - Booklist atmospheric novel of emotional despair and existential dread. "Richly symbolic and undeniably haunting. I can't stop thinking about this novel." - Lydia Kiesling, author of The Golden State Filled with compelling, provocative details about the work of "exit guides" for terminally ill people, Life Events is both a mid-life bildungsroman and a meditation on self-determination. Karolina Waclawiak transports the reader into the streets of Los Angeles, the deserts of the southwest, the apartments of the dying, and a woman's life at a moment of profound change.
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" Life Events is a hypnotic novel that beautifully grapples with fundamental questions about how to die and how to live. In Waclawiak’s hands we can peer into the afterlife (or lack of one) and whisper, Oh wow!" - Scott McClanahan, author of The Sarah Book and Crapalachia "Karolina Waclawiak is one of our best writers alive today and in Life Events, she gives us the first great book of 21st century grief. Life Events is a deeply moving meditation on death and the dying, the fierce weight of marriage and family, and the unrelenting absurdity of being alive.” ― Hannah Lillith Assadi, author of Sonora “In this exquisite novel, Karolina Waclawiak rightfully recasts the American West as the territory of wandering dreams and dreamers and the land where this life and the improbable afterlife most often collide. And this highway has no exits.” - Saeed Jones, author of How We Fight For Our Lives Waclawiak’s mesmerizing storytelling, both painfully funny and joyfully despairing, immediately grabs hold of you and takes you on a ride. “Every page of this novel is a point of no return once you’ve read Karolina Waclawiak’s Life Events, you will never see life, death, grief, and healing the same way. This transcendent novel braided the numbness and hope of everyday living into a lifeline that pulled me through each mesmerizing chapter.” - Diane Cook, author of Man V. “A masterwork of grief and loss, living and dying, feeling trapped and becoming free. Every page of Life Events shines with insight, feeling, and astonishing candor, and not a sentence rings false. Tuesday, July 28th - 6:30 ET - Life Events Bomb Magazine Launch with Laura van den Berg - hosted by R.O. Thursday, July 30th - 7pm ET - Karolina Waclawiak in conversation with Isaac Fitzgerald virtually Books Are Magic, Brooklyn, NY. Thursday, August 6th - 6:30 PT - Karolina Waclawiak in conversation with Roxane Gay virtually Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA.
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Monday, August 10th - 8pm ET - Franklin Park Reading Series with Karolina Waclawiak, Laura van den Berg, Mary South, and Bethany C.
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Monday, August 31st - 7pm ET - Karolina Waclawiak in conversation with Diane Cook hosted by Literati Bookstore. Life Events has been included in the Millions Most Anticipated Books of 2020, BuzzFeed Books Best Books of the Summer, AV Club’s books to read in July, Bitch Media’s books feminists should read in July, and more. With so much opportunity for raw emotion, the author seems to avoid it at all cost, going for exceptional clarity instead.” Read the New York Times Book Review.įor the LA Times, Karolina was profiled by Stuart Miller.įor the Believer Magazine, Karolina spoke to Hayden Bennett about why we try to organize our lives not to feel pain.įor LitHub, Karolina spoke to Laura van den Berg about characters facing middle age and the necessity to change your life.įor Bomb Magazine, Karolina spoke to Diane Cook about Life Events, pre-grieving, and the desert.įor Hazlitt, Karolina spoke to Sarah Black McCulloch about the way we think about death in America.įor BuzzFeed News, Karolina wrote a personal essay about the loss of her mother, immigration, and grief. “Waclawiak accomplishes a brilliant feat here, creating an atmosphere of almost palpable, effortful dullness that presides over the entire novel. Life Events is now available from Farrar, Straus and Giroux.