GOOD GIRL: Lesung mit Aria Aber

In the organizer's words:

Reading & talk with Aria Aber

• Admission from 19:30, start at 20:00 (we have to close the store at 19:00 as an exception)
• There are about 25 seats. It's worth being on time, because the best seats are of course right at the front. :)
• We have a book table & Aria will be signing!

About GOOD GIRL
A young woman can gain access to almost anything. How she gets out of there is another question. In old cellar halls, where techno makes the walls shake, still marked by the violence of the last century, 19-year-old Nila meets like-minded people. They lay down the lines while preaching socialism, and for Nila, this dark mass body is the way out of the Berlin prefab building, where only refugees like her live, where the toilets are infested with silverfish and the walls are smeared with swastikas. She only escapes the memory of her dead mother, once a great feminist revolutionary, now just a last flash in the eyes of her life-weary father, when she is intoxicated. For anyone who asks her, her family is Greek, not Afghan. And then Nila meets the American writer Marlowe Woods, who opens up a world of patrons and festivals to her, who has always wanted to write. Marlowe shares generously, but counter-demands and demands soon follow that far exceed the limits of what Nila can bear. "Good Girl" by Aria Aber is an ecstatically booming paean to the lost intimacies of youth. A virtuoso debut novel and the harrowing portrait of a young artist who is swept up in a maelstrom of sex, drugs, violence, friendship breaking up, losing family and grief. To the book!

About Aria
Aria Aber was born and raised in Germany and currently lives in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles. Her first poetry collection "Hard Damage" (2019) won the Prairie Schooner Prize. A former Stegner Fellow, 2020 Whiting Award recipient, and current PhD candidate at USC, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, New Republic, The Yale Review, Narrative, and POETRY, among others.