![]() ![]() But not just “slip” the way most people use the word slip. On a winter day in the sixth grade, your same English teacher-a woman with a poodle poof of white hair, who wears floor-length skirts and a brooch at her neck like she’s onboard the Titanic-comes outside to shepherd you back in from recess when she slips on the ice. Draw a wolf with charcoal and place a poem you wrote and printed onto clear paper over the drawing for an effect that you truly think belongs in an art museum.ĥ. In sixth grade, you read The Call of the Wild and your English teacher has you create a project to represent the book. What was your favorite subject in school?ģ. Are you a left-brain thinker or a right-brain thinker?Ģ. ![]() This long-form personality quiz manages to combine humor with unflinching honesty as one young woman tries to find herself amid the many, many choices that your twenties have to offer. Part-memoir, part-VERY long personality test, Choose Your Own Disaster is a manifesto about the millennial experience and modern feminism and how the easy advice of “you can be anything you want!” is actually pretty fucking difficult when there are so many possible versions of yourself it seems like you could be.ĭana has no idea who she is, but at least she knows she’s a Carrie, a Ravenclaw, a Raphael, a Belle, a former emo kid, a Twitter addict, and a millennial just trying her best. Join Dana Schwartz on a journey revisiting all of the awful choices she made in her early twenties through the internet’s favorite method of self-knowledge: the quiz. It has sold in 14 languages. She lives with her family in Nashville, Tennessee, and you can visit her online at ”hilarious and heartbreaking” (Jo Piazza) and unflinchingly honest memoir about one young woman’s terrible and life-changing decisions while hoping–and sometimes failing–to find herself, in the style of Never Have I Ever and Adulting. She is the author of Bluebird and The Light in Hidden Places which received two starred reviews, was a Reese's YA Book Club pick, and received fantastic media coverage for Sharon's strong research and affecting prose. Sharon is also the author of its sequel, A Spark Unseen Rook, which was selected as an Indiebound Indie Next List Top Ten selection, a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection, and a Parents' Choice gold medalist and The Forgetting, a #1 New York Times bestseller and an Indie Next Pick of the List selection, and its companion novel, The Knowing. Sharon Cameron's debut novel The Dark Unwinding was awarded the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators' Sue Alexander Award for Most Promising New Work and the SCBWI Crystal Kite Award, and was named a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults selection. Her books include Choose Your Own Disaster, The White Man's Guide to White Male Writers of the Western Canon, and Anatomy: A Love Story. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, and their cats Eddie and Beetlejuice. As a journalist and critic, Dana has written for Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, Glamour, GQ, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair and more. Malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and Hazel may be the only one capable of setting things right.ĭana Schwartz is a television writer and the creator of the number-one charting history podcast Noble Blood. Soon Hazel is dragged into the glamor and romance of a court where everyone has something to hide, especially the enigmatic, brilliant members of a social club known as the Companions to the Death.Īs Hazel's work entangles her more and more with the British court, she realizes that her own future as a surgeon isn't the only thing at stake for her. When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been specifically requested to be the personal physician of Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III. All she can really do now is treat patients and maintain Hawthornden Castle as it starts to decay around her. She doesn't even know if Jack is alive or dead. Hazel Sinnett is alone and half-convinced the events of the year before-the immortality, Beecham's vial-were a figment of her imagination. Please register for free by filling out the form below! (Note: If for any reason you need to cancel your registration, please call the store at 61 at least 24 hours before the event so your space can be provided to another guest.) Because space will be limited, registration is required to attend this event. This is a free event which will take place IN STORE on Wednesday, March 8th at 6:30pm Central Time. Parnassus Books is pleased to welcome Dana Schwartz, YA author of Immortality: A Love Story, in conversation with Sharon Cameron. ![]()
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