Andy Anderegg: Virtual Event

Join us on Wednesday, April 9th at 3 PM PT / 6 PM ET on Zoom for an event with PLUM author Andy Anderegg in conversation with Hub City Press Managing Editor Kate McMullen.

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About the Book:

For fans of Sarah Rose Etter and Scott McClanahan, Plum is a darkly beautiful, unflinching novel about modern girlhood in the internet age, the daily toll of trauma, and the limits of love.

Told entirely in the second person, Plum follows J as she grows from kid to teen in a house ruled by her alcoholic dad and complicit mother. Her older brother is sometimes wonderful, sometimes gross, and he’s her only hope of getting out. J’s world is one of nail polish, above-ground pools, and drive-thrus—and of violence, carelessness, and so many rules. J covets the peace that comes when she slips on her headphones, turns on her handheld radio, and dreams of how she and her brother can make their escape.

When her brother leaves home and disappears, so does J’s best chance to flee her parents’ chaotic orbit. Alone and angry, J reaches through her computer screen for the life she wants: blonde hair, glittering nails, attention, freedom. As she stumbles into adulthood with no template to follow, J must figure out how to build a family for herself full of the love she deserves. In her brutally compelling debut, Anderegg turns her singular gaze on the generational patterns of addiction and abuse.

About the Author:

Andy Anderegg was born in Austin, Texas and lives in Los Angeles, California. She holds a BA from the University of Oklahoma and an MFA from the University of Kansas. Her fiction has been shortlisted for the Dzanc Books' Prize for Fiction and named a finalist for The Clay Reynolds Novella Prize from Texas Review Press.

About the Conversation Partner: 

Kate Arden McMullen (she/her) is the Managing Editor of Hub City Press. She received her MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Her fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, Carve Magazine, The Boiler, Foglifter, The Pinch, and Reckon Review, among other outlets. A Best of the Net and Pushcart nominee, Kate is the 2015 winner of the Colbert Chapbook Award. She lives in Upstate South Carolina with her partner and a pit bull named Holstein.