Author Readings and signing with PATRICIA VOLONAKIS DAVIS and MICHAEL NEFF September 24, 2009

You are invited to join Patricia Volonakis Davis, Sue Ross, and Michael Neff at the BookShop West Portal for a reading of their works and a taste of Patricia's famous salsa puttanesca!

Author Introductions:

Patricia Volonakis Davis, author of "Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece"

After two decades of marriage to a gorgeous Greek man, Italian-American author Davis agrees to move to Greece, where her husband insists he will be happy. The result is her funny and often self-deprecating memoir, Harlot's Sauce: A Memoir of Food, Family, Love, Loss, and Greece. With vivid descriptions of life in modern-day Greece, Davis's book is both a tasty treat and an exhilarating sail on the Hellenic seas through xenophobia, dysfunctional family units, religious ravings, obsessive protocols, political disorder, European football, and fabulous food.

Michale Neff, author of "Year of the Rhinoceros"

Neff will read from Year of the Rhinoceros, his compelling debut novel that explores what went wrong in this country a couple of decades ago, and keeps going wrong even now. Under the presidency of Ronald Reagan, the struggle for America's soul has begun - a trial of conscience and idealism versus idolatry and political dictatorship. Democracy is fading, and two employees in a solitary small agency created by Congress, the Office of Whistleblower Counsel, are determined to save it.

We would love to see you there, and, please feel free to bring a friend or
two.