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Love Interrupted

Reneilwe Malatji author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Catalyst Books

Published:20th Sep '18

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  • 200-300 review copies (150 prepub, 150 postpub) sent to reviewers, booksellers, librarians, bloggers, others.
  • Available as an e-ARC on Edelweiss and Netgalley.
  • Blog tour with book giveaways.
  • We will seek a blurb from NoViolet Bulawayo and other women writers in the literary world, both African and American writers.
  • Goodreads giveaway.
  • We will seek features and reviews from newspapers, women's magazines, and feminist and women's studies journals, as well as African studies journals.
  • Promotion targeting literary journals such as World Literature Today, UTNE, The Atlantic, Harper's, Tin House, Kenyon Review, Paris Review, New England Review, Threepenny Review, Antioch Review, Agni.
  • We will promote the book to academic markets through CBSD's Academic catalog.
  • We will promote the book in the First Year Experience program.
  • We will create a reading guide for book clubs and others interested in reading the book in a group setting. The reading guide will be printed in the book and will include a Q&A with the author.
  • We will seek out book clubs who are interested in the book and offer the chance to win a SKYPE visit with the author.
  • Promotion at book fairs and trade shows--ALA annual, ALA mid-winter, African Studies Association, etc.
  • We will submit the book for relevant awards.
  • Promotion online via Catalyst's website, email lists and social media (blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube) with author and publisher interviews, chats, and guest posts.
  • Simultaneous e-book and print release. Readers Guide available.

    • A diverse chorus of female voices recount misadventures with love, husbands, and in-laws. A collection of short fiction from South Africa."[E]ach story inventively unfurls a different desire, longing, or frustration" — Jacinda Townsend, author Saint Monkey

    In her debut collection of short fiction, Reneilwe Malatji invites us into the intimate lives of South African women—their whispered conversations, their love lives, their triumphs and heartbreaks. This diverse chorus of female voices recounts misadventures with love, family, and community in powerful stories woven together with anger, politics, and wit. Malatji crafts an engaging collection full of rich, memorable characters who navigate work, love, patriarchy, and racism with thoughtfulness, strength, and humor.

    "The unsentimental style of these stories packs an emotional punch as they examine post-apartheid patriarchy through the eyes of various observant black women characters." —Foreword Reviews -- AIMEE JODOIN

    "Woven into the insightful observations on love and relationships is the omnipresent tension between tradition and the ways that being a South African woman today challenges previously held ideas about women’s roles. Many readers will see themselves in—and find themselves rooting for—the women in Malatji’s solid debut." — Kirkus Reviews


    "[Love Interrupted] gives a nuanced glimpse into women's lives a world away from many of us, but those women could, in many ways, be women anywhere. [...] Their authenticity allows the stories to connect women's experiences while showcasing the strength and resiliency of women in a system built against them. [...] [A] beautiful and poignant story collection." — Shelf Unbound

    • Winner of Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize for Love Interrupted 2014

    ISBN: 9781946395030

    Dimensions: unknown

    Weight: unknown

    224 pages