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Jami Attenberg

Born: 1971 in Arlington Heights, Illinois
Pen Name: None

Connection to Illinois: Jami lived in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

Biography: Jami Attenberg is the author of Instant Love, The Kept Man, The Melting Season, and The Middlesteins. She has contributed to The New York Times, Salon, and numerous other publications. Jami has lived all over these United States from Portland, Oregon to Tampa, Florida, including Baltimore, MD., where she got a degree from Johns Hopkins University in Writing Seminars.


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Primary Literary Genre(s): Fiction

Primary Audience(s): Adult readers

Email: jamiattenberg@gmail.com
Website: http://jamiattenberg.com
Jami Attenberg on WorldCat : http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=jami+attenberg


Selected Titles

Instant love :
ISBN: 9780307337832 OCLC: 123970218

Three River Press, New York : ©2007.

Told through the eyes of three young women and their friends and lovers, Instant Love explores what it means to be in love, what it means to be lonely, and what it means to be both at the same time. Holly turns to computer dating to find love even as she thinks wistfully of a former boyfriend who loved her well and fed her ice cream. Maggie recounts the story of her one crazy summer to her disbelieving husband and feels the distance between them grow wider than the void across their king-sized bed. And Sarah Lee remembers the one who got away and the one she ran away from, all the while moving toward the one she can actually love. As Holly, Maggie, and Sarah Lee move through the rituals of modern love, they have to decide who is worth taking a chance on in a world where things don't fall into place easily, people are often difficult, and disappointment is the rule. Through their stories, Attenberg presents a rare, honest look at love.

The kept man
ISBN: 9781101218013 OCLC: 934775932

Riverhead Books, New York : 2007.

The kept man /
ISBN: 1594483515 OCLC: 313410982

Riverhead Books, New York : 2009.

Six years after her beloved artist husband falls into a coma, Jarvis Miller comes to accept the inevitability of his death, finds new friendships, and discovers evidence of a shocking betrayal in a hidden box of photographs.

The melting season
ISBN: 9781101184639 OCLC: 607531510

Riverhead Books, New York : 2010.

Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. She's also left behind her deepest, most shameful secrets-among them a dysfunctional family she's never quite been able to escape and a marriage whose most intimate moments have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought. But running away from the past isn't as easy as she had hoped. When Catherine reaches Las Vegas, she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she had sworn she'd keep hidden, and teach her what human connection really means. Armed with this new knowledge, she is finally emboldened to uncover the truth about her family, come to understand what destroyed her marriage, and prevent her troubled sister from repeating her mistakes.

  The melting season /
ISBN: 1594488967 OCLC: 426801766

Riverhead Books, New York : 2010.

Catherine Madison is headed West with a suitcase full of cash that isn't hers. She's just left the only home she's ever known, a small town in Nebraska, after the only man she had ever known, her husband, Thomas, deserted her. She's also left behind her deepest, most shameful secrets-among them a dysfunctional family she's never quite been able to escape and a marriage whose most intimate moments have plagued her with self-doubt. On the road, she was going to become a new person. Or so she thought. But running away from the past isn't as easy as she had hoped. When Catherine reaches Las Vegas, she forms surprising new friendships that compel her to reveal what she had sworn she'd keep hidden, and teach her what human connection really means. Armed with this new knowledge, she is finally emboldened to uncover the truth about her family, come to understand what destroyed her marriage, and prevent her troubled sister from repeating her mistakes.

  The Middlesteins /
ISBN: 1455507210 OCLC: 740250671

Grand Central Pub., New York : 2012.

Two siblings with very different personalities attempt to take control of their mother's food obsession and massive weight gain to save her life after their father walks out and leaves her reeling in the Chicago suburbs.

 

 

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