Could You Be With Her Now by Jen Michalski

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This collection of two novellas showcases Jen Michalski’s varying skills as a writer. In “I Can Make It to California Before It’s Time for Dinner,” Michalski examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality. In a first-person narrative, the reader follows Jimmy, a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl. He winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be. In “May-September,” which won first place in Press 53’s Open Awards in 2010, a young writer is hired by a much-older woman over the summer to help blog her memoirs for her grandchildren. An unlikely friendship, and more, follows, as Michalski examines one of the last cultural taboos of our age: same-sex May-December romances. Michalski is also the author of the debut novel The Tide King (forthcoming, 2013 Black Lawrence Press) and lives in Baltimore.

Publication Date: March 5, 2013
Paperback: 180 pages
ISBN: 978-1-938103-57-5

Also available as an eBook

This collection of two novellas showcases Jen Michalski’s varying skills as a writer. In “I Can Make It to California Before It’s Time for Dinner,” Michalski examines the dangers of living in a world while having a compromised reality. In a first-person narrative, the reader follows Jimmy, a mentally challenged fourteen-year-old boy who accidentally kills a neighborhood girl. He winds up running away and hitching a ride with a trucker who is not as trustworthy a companion as Jimmy believes him to be. In “May-September,” which won first place in Press 53’s Open Awards in 2010, a young writer is hired by a much-older woman over the summer to help blog her memoirs for her grandchildren. An unlikely friendship, and more, follows, as Michalski examines one of the last cultural taboos of our age: same-sex May-December romances. Michalski is also the author of the debut novel The Tide King (forthcoming, 2013 Black Lawrence Press) and lives in Baltimore.

Publication Date: March 5, 2013
Paperback: 180 pages
ISBN: 978-1-938103-57-5

Also available as an eBook

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Jen Michalski is the author of three novels, three short story collections, and a couplet of novellas. Her latest novel, You'll Be Fine, was a 2021 Buzzfeed "Best Small Press Book," a 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist, and was selected as one of the "Best Books We Read This Year" by the Independent Press Review. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, Poets & Writers, The Literary Hub, Psychology Today, Writer's Digest, and more. She’s the editor of the online literary weekly jmww and currently lives in Southern California. Her latest collection of fiction, The Company of Strangers, is forthcoming from Braddock Avenue Books in January 2021.

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