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A Novel
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Jennifer Aquino
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Length
8 hours 39 minutes
Language
English
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“This is a sweet story about a modern neighborhood and how the reality of 2023 settles in across generations and races. The characters are interesting and accessible, and you'll find yourself a little more invested in a mall closing than you thought possible. ”
— Sarah • The Snail on the Wall
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“A dying mall in upstate New York is the through line for the characters in Karin Lin-Greenberg’s You Are Here. Cranky elderly Rosalie visits Tina’s hair salon once a week for a haircut. The school bus lets Tina’s son Jackson off at the mall every weekday after school. The bookshop manager doesn’t want to finish his Ph.D. and teach as his wife expects. You Are Here is a book that addresses family, expectations, and prejudices in accessible and entertaining ways. ”
— Rachel • Avid Bookshop
The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are closing, and as the institution breathes its last gasp, the people inside it dream of something different, something more. You Are Here brings this diverse group of characters vividly to life.
The only hair stylist at Sunshine Clips secretly watches YouTube primers on how to draw and paint, just as her awkward young son covertly studies new illusions for his magic act. His friend and magician's assistant, a high school cashier in the food court, has attracted the unwanted attention of a strange boy at school. She tells no one except the mall's chain bookstore manager, a failed academic living in the tiny house he built in his mother-in-law's backyard. His family is watched over by the judgmental old woman next door, whose weekly trips to Sunshine Clips hide a complicated and emotional history and will spark the moment when everything changes for them all.
Exploring how the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves are inextricably bound to the places we call home, You Are Here is a keenly perceptive and deeply humane portrait of a community in transition, ultimately illuminating the magical connections that can bloom from the ordinary wonder of our everyday lives.
Karin Lin-Greenberg is a Chinese American, award-winning writer whose debut collection, Faulty Predictions, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and won gold in Foreword Reviews's INDIE Award in the Short Story category. Her second collection, Vanished, was the winner of the Prairie Schooner Raz-Shumaker Book Prize in Fiction. She is the recipient of fellowships from MacDowell, the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts, and the Kenyon Review Writers Workshop. Her fiction has appeared in publications including the Southern Review, Story, and Boulevard. Her short story "The Sweeper of Hair," the basis of You Are Here's opening chapter, was a finalist for the Nelson Algren Literary Award and was published in the Chicago Tribune. Lin-Greenberg is an associate professor in the English Department at Siena College in upstate New York.
Jennifer Aquino is an American actor and award-winning narrator based in Los Angeles. She works in film, television, theater, and voice-over. She's one of the doctors who killed McDreamy on the ABC medical drama Grey's Anatomy. Her theater background includes performances at East West Players, The Actors' Gang, LaJolla Playhouse, Theatre West, El Portal Theatre, and Center Stage Theatre. Jennifer loves giving voice to young adults, and reading journeys of empowered women in romantic comedies, LitRPG books, fantasy/sci-fi novels, mysteries, and thrillers. Her background in theater and voice contributes to her narration in giving each character a unique life.