Be honest, we’ve all been there…those embarrassing teenage moments when we’d rather disappear forever than admit that those people are actually, (gulp) our parents! Like when your new boyfriend comes over, and Dad is vacuuming the garage wearing a Speedo. Provocative new novelist Jessica Anya Blau will reminisce with listeners about the laughter and tears, dramas and joys of being a teen and coming of age in the 1970s.

CREDENTIALS: Jessica Anya Blau currently lectures and teaches creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. Her popular short stories have appeared in many notable
publications. Her stimulating and thought provoking new novel, THE SUMMER OF NAKED SWIM PARTIES, is based loosely on her childhood in Santa Barbara, California.

AVAILABILITY: Nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
CONTACT: Caroline Sun, (212) 207-7301 (NY); Caroline.Sun@harpercollins.com