I'm going on book tour!
I hope to see you there
Hey friends, I’m so excited to share that I’ll be going on book tour for my forthcoming sophomore novel, A Sharp Endless Need, which comes out May 13.
Here is a bit about it:
A propulsive and nostalgic coming-of-age novel about an all-consuming relationship between two teammates on a girls’ high school basketball team, from the Lambda Literary Award–winning author of I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
Star point guard Mack Morris’s senior year of high school begins with twin cataclysms: the death of her father and the arrival of transfer student Liv Cooper. On the court, Mack and Liv discover an electrifying, game-winning chemistry; off the court, they fall into an equally intoxicating more-than-friendship that is out-of-bounds for their small Pennsylvania town in 2004, and for Liv’s conservative mother. As Mack’s desire and grief collide with drugs, sex, and the looming college signing deadline, she is forced to reckon with the disconnect between her past and her future—and fight for the life she wants for herself, whether or not Liv will be on the court beside her.
Written with the lush longing of André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name, the obsessive attention of Jean Kyoung Frazier’s Pizza Girl, and all the romance and feeling of the beloved 2000 movie Love & Basketball, Crane’s sophomore novel is a voice-driven, literary treatment of the big feelings of first love, intimacy, heartbreak, grief, and, of course, sports.
Tour dates
May 13, 7 PM: San Diego, CA | The Book Catapult, in conversation with Kevin Kearney
May 19, 7 PM: Los Angeles, CA | Skylight Books, in conversation with Jean Kyoung Frazier
June 18, 7 PM: Boston, MA | All She Wrote Books, in conversation with Frankie de la Cretaz
June 25, 8 PM: Brooklyn, NY | Ditmas Lit Reading Series
June 26, 7 PM: Philadelphia, PA | The Head & the Hand, in conversation with Kayleb Rae Candrilli
June 29, 3 PM: Madison, WI | A Room of One’s Own, in conversation with Natasha Oladokun
Please visit the bookstore sites for more details!
I would love to see you all while I’m promoting ASEN. Please drop in, say hi, chat, have a drink, whatever.