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LISA GLATT reads from new novel THE NAKEDS

The Nakeds (Regan Arts)

Told against the backdrop of the sexual revolution of the 1970s, Lisa Glatt perfectly and profoundly captures the coming-of-age of a young woman facing challenges both physical and emotional, and the complex evolution of a family in desperate search of hope and harmony. An absorbing, darkly comic tale of love and desire, of forgiveness and the unforgivable, The Nakeds reveals the truths that can only be exposed by stripping away the lies that we tell each other…and ourselves.

Praise for The Nakeds

“Trust me: The Nakeds is a book you won’t want to put down. With humor, heart, intelligence and compassion, Lisa Glatt has written a powerfully absorbing novel about the most dark and complicated human truths. Her characters are so perceptively drawn I felt as if they were people I knew. Her portrait of southern California in the 1970s is so vivid I could practically feel that particular sun on face. Her insights into how we love and forgive and deny and accept are so profound I felt changed by the time I read the final sentence. This is an unforgettable and spellbinding book by a writer of rare radiance.”  —Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild 

The Nakeds is many things: a meditation on the body, an investigation into sickness and health and wholeness and brokenness, a social history of California in the 1970s, and a gorgeously told, archly funny yet heartbreaking story. But mostly it is a work of simple and lucid brilliance. The author has a singular gift for delivering gut punching, soul stirring moments with a feather light touch. To read her is to feel you’re in the hands of a master, yet—magically—never feel those hands upon you. Lisa Glatt is a stunningly gifted writer. The world needs to know her. I think it soon will.”   —Meghan Daum, author of The Unspeakable: And Other Subjects of Discussion

“Lisa Glatt writes with incandescent ink: her novel emanates light. There is damage and heartache to be found in The Nakeds, yet every page is radiant with redemption, and every gorgeously human character embodies hope. This book will keep you up late at night, turning page after page, laughing aloud, palms sweating, heart in your mouth.”    —Dylan Landis, author of Rainey Royal and Normal People Don’t Live Like This

The Nakeds! Started it at 8, drank two more cups of caffeine at midnight, and had to finish this novel in the same night.  The characters so finely etched and flawed and real, the scenes indelible as if burned into wood—this portrait of people trying to make it in southern California is one of the finest you’ll see.”   —Susan Straight, National Book Award Finalist, author of Highwire Moon 

Lisa Glatt is the author of the novel A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That and the short story collection The Apple's Bruise. Glatt teaches at California State University, Long Beach and is married to writer David Hernandez. The Nakeds has been optioned by producer Steven Shainberg (Secretary), who is planning to direct the movie adaptation.

Photo by David Hernandez

Event date: 
Thursday, June 11, 2015 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
1818 N Vermont Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90027
The Apple's Bruise: Stories By Lisa Glatt Cover Image
$14.99
ISBN: 9780743270526
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Published: Simon & Schuster - June 6th, 2005

A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That: A Novel By Lisa Glatt Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780743257763
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Published: Simon & Schuster - June 6th, 2005