Mating Calls

Could a little yellow pill be responsible for landing Lexie James in the bed of her lover—and her lover’s wife? Whatever the reason for this charmingly reckless school counselor’s bad behavior, you’ve never been on a bender like this one. In Number Seven, Zandra runs into her seventh love—of 48—in a department store.

Jessica Anya Blau’s newest novel, The Wonder Bread Summer, was picked for CNN’s summer reading list, NPR’s summer reading list, and Oprah Book Club’s summer reading list. Her novel Drinking Closer to Home was featured in Target stores as a “Breakout Book” and made many Best Books of the Year lists. Blau’s first novel, The Summer of Naked Swim Parties, was a national bestseller and was picked as a Best Summer Book by the Today Show, the New York Post, and New York magazine. The San Francisco Chronicle and other newspapers chose it as one of the Best Books of the Year. Blau cowrote the screenplay for Franny, a film starring Frances Fisher and Steve Howey. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and have won or been nominated for many awards, including the Pushcart Prize. Several of Blau's stories and essays have been anthologized in books such as The Prose Reader: Essays for Thinking, Reading and Writing; and Dirty Words: A Literary Encyclopedia of Sex.

For more information, visit www.jessicaanyablau.com or follow her on Twitter @jessicaanyablau.

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