Miah Arnold

Author Miah (pronounced Maya) Arnold visits from Utah to present her quirky first novel, Sweet Land of Bigamy. The main character, Helen, has a husband deployed to Iraq but somehow falls in love with a poet from India whom she proceeds to marry, even though all she wants to be is ordinary and middle class.

Location: Street: Auntie's Bookstore/Mezzanine Additional: 402 W. Main Ave. City: Spokane, Province: Washington Postal Code: 99201-0214 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)

Friday, July 27, 7 p.m.

Salt Lake City native Miah Arnold will read from and sign her debut novel, Sweet Land of Bigamy.

Arnold's essay, “You Owe Me” (originally published by Michigan Quarterly Review) will appear in Best American Essays 2012.

“If I could have conjured a wild, wry, delicious story of bigamy with the woman choosing one groom too many and a few other sweet sins, it would be Miah Arnold’s Sweet Land of Bigamy. Gasping with laughter and admiration, I wonder not if this book will be a hit, but … you’ll pardon me … just how big!” —Jacquelyn Mitchard, author, The Deep End of the Ocean and Second Nature

“Sweet Land of Bigamy is truly a story for our time. The vision it provides does not flinch at contemporary hardships but, rather, embraces those and suggests how real people might accommodate, forgive, endure, and re-invent the weird wild world we’ve found ourselves in. And all this with a sly sense of humor and a very large heart.” —Antonya Nelson, author of Bound del.icio.us Facebook Google StumbleUpon Twitter Yahoo

Location: Street: 1511 South 1500 East City: Salt Lake City, Province: Utah Postal Code: 84105 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)