Stephanie Danler, with Emma Roberts Karah Preiss ( April 29, 2021)

You can support the bookstore and events like this by buying the book: Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of Sweetbitter, joins Greenlight (virtually ) to share the paperback edition of Stray, a memoir of growing up in a family shattered by lies and addiction, and of one womans attempts to find a life beyond the limits of her past. After selling her first novela dream shed worked long and hard forDanler knew she should be happy. Instead, she found herself driven to face the difficult past shed left behind a decade ago. After years in New York City shes pulled home to Southern California by forces she doesnt totally understand, haunted by questions of legacy and trauma. Here, she works toward answers, uncovering hard truths about her parents and herself as she explores whether its possible to change the course of her history. Stray is a moving, sometimes devastating, brilliantly written and ultimately inspiring exploration of the la