9th Ave: Claire Vaye Watkins with Daniel Gumbiner

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Please note that, while RSVP is not required, it is very helpful to us in gauging expected attendance. If you are planning on attending, please RSVP. Those who have not RSVP'd will not be denied entry. Seating is first come, first serve. Join us on Wednesday, July 22 at 7pm when we welcome Claire Vaye Watkins to celebrate her latest book, *Yellow Pine*, with Daniel Gumbiner at 9th Ave! ​ Free to Attend, Please RSVP Or Watch on YouTube Live/Link Available Soon ​ **Praise for *Yellow Pine*** "An exhilarating novel about a woman in the Mojave desert who wants to be a mother one more time, wants to love freely and arrange her life freely, wants to live outside the maze of money and ads and being sold to, a novel with huge and electric convictions."**—Megha Majumdar, author of *A Guardian and a Thief*** ***​*** “*Yellow Pine* is a wild desert howl of celebration and elegy. A true prose-musician, Watkins here conducts a kind of cosmic symphony. It’s a tongue-in-cheek (and tongue-in-many-other-places) midlife epic and also an earnest cry of love for our burning, living world." **—Karen Russell, author of National Book Award finalist, *The Antidote*** “Inimitable, irrepressible, wild and true. A romp of troubled tender outsider angst, it’s also a fresh classic of desert writing, a lament and hymn to the great Mojave, bombed, fenced, airbnb.ed and solarized to near ruin, and to its mysterious ancient and innocent heart, the desert tortoise.”—**Joy Williams, author of Pulitzer Prize…