Searching for Suzi Book Launch December 2

Searching for Suzi Release Party
Wednesday, December 2, 2009, 6 pm
Mercury Cafe
2199 California St
Denver, CO 80205-2821
(303) 294-9258
Musical Guest: Nick Busheff




Monkey Puzzle Press is proud to announce the publication of our new novel - Searching for Suzi by Nancy Stohlman!

For a free preview, click here: Searching for Suzi

From Monkey Puzzle Press:

What happens when an ex-stripper in her mid-thirties, married with children, awakens one day questioning what brought her to a current life of complicated domesticity? Compelled to return to Omaha after seventeen years, the narrator we only know as Natalie begins a quest into her past, an adventure that takes the reader from childhood beauty pageants to the sex and glamour industries. Natalie’s search becomes an intrepid journey through her own sexuality, a woman not only claiming herself but also accepting her contradictions. With inquisitive perception and agile use of perspective, Searching for Suzi is an investigation into the tragic shadows of a past preferred to be forgotten.

Here’s what people are saying about Searching for Suzi:

“Sexy, gutsy, raw and mature. A literary strip tease, Nancy Stohlman lures us through the layers of her dark world with the promise of exposing the ultimate sparkle…and ends up revealing something profound.”

Raymond Federman
Author of Double or Nothing

“Searching for Suzi offers syntax of desire itself – the complex, difficult, and beautiful ways we rupture into and beyond our own ghost-versions inside the mystery of hello and good-bye. Nancy Stohlman has written a spare, searing, and stunning book. It will wake you in the way that only necessary art can do.”

Selah Saterstrom
Author of The Meat and Spirit Plan

“In cheap pulp fiction, a stripper is either the helpless victim of sexual exploitation or the gutsy woman who makes the system work for her. Searching for Suzi is not pulp fiction. Nancy Stohlman smartly complicates the stereotypes with this story of a woman looking back on her life from a scrutinizing distance, separating the romantic images from the real and transforming the latter, through the art of storytelling, into something intimate and compelling.”

Danielle Dutton
Author of Attempts at a Life

$11.95 - Available for Pre-Order at Monkey Puzzle Books! Click Here

Or follow this link to Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Searching-Suzi-Nancy-Stohlman/dp/0980165067/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256824871&sr=1-4