Who can resist a hard-luck girl with a haunting secret and a love letter to New York? Don’t miss the launch party for two new novels written by Brooklyn authors at The Community Bookstore, one of New York’s great bookstores on April 15 from 5-7PM (143 7th Avenue in Park Slope, Brooklyn).

The Community Bookstore and 3RingPress invite you to celebrate the launch of two new novels, The Tattooed Heart, by Jezra Kaye, and Come From Nowhere, by Ellen Greenfield.  Toast these books and hear excerpts read by the authors, who will be available to sign copies.

At the start of the AIDS epidemic, Gracie—a hard-luck girl with a haunting secret—loses her best friend and lover, Marcus. But just before he dies, Marcus makes her promise to bear a child in his memory. He knows she’ll need someone to live for when he’s gone.  But he can’t know how tough and twisted Gracie’s journey will become. The Tattooed Heart has been called “a wild road trip through the American West, fueled by anger and loss.  Gracie’s is the tough and tender voice you won’t be able to get out of your head.”

Come From Nowhere has been called a love letter to New York City and all of its varied inhabitants.  “The seven characters we meet at the onset of this remarkable novel, each wrapped in her own particular music, are soon to experience the sudden arrival of darkness—New York City’s two-day black out of summer, 1977—and the subsequent transformation of everything.  Written with grace and perceptive intelligence, the narrative that follows is humane, mysterious, tragic, compelling and beautiful.” Chuck Wachtel, author of the novels 3/03, The Gates, and Joe The Engineer.