ASU Book Group: 'Ball' by Tara Ison
**Please note that the new date for this meeting is March 1.** The reading selection is "Ball" by Tara Ison, associate professor of creative writing in the Department of English at ASU. The book group is open to all in the ASU community and meets monthly from noon–1 p.m. in the Piper Writers House on ASU's Tempe campus. Authors are generally present.
Ball is the debut collection of short fiction by Ison, acclaimed author of the novels "Rockaway" and "A Child Out of Alcatraz." In it, she explores the darker side of love, sex and death. The stories, set mostly in contemporary Los Angeles, feature a recently bereaved young woman, a cancer-stricken best friend and a dying uncle.
The book is available from amazon.com.
Remaining ASU Book Group meetings and selections for 2016-2017 include Mar. 29 (Martin Beck Matuštík: "Out of Silence: Repair across Generations"); and Apr. 26 (Melissa Pritchard: "A Solemn Pleasure: To Imagine, Witness, and Write"). Additional selections TBD.
The ASU Book Group is sponsored as a community outreach initiative by the Department of English and organized in partnership with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.