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Don't You Know I Love You

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In Don't You Know I Love You by Laura Bogart, the story explores the complex dynamics of family relationships, centring on a young woman who navigates the challenges of living with her controlling and emotionally volatile father. As she strives for independence, secrets and tensions simmer beneath the surface, setting the stage for a compelling and emotional journey of self-discovery and resilience. The narrative delves into themes of healing and understanding in the face of familial strife.
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You might enjoy this book if you're drawn to character-driven stories exploring complex family dynamics and emotional resilience. It's a compelling narrative that delves into themes of love, identity, and the struggles of navigating personal relationships, all intertwined with a deeply introspective and engaging prose style.

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Don't You Know I Love You

The last place Angelina Moltisanti ever wants to go is home. She barely escaped life under the roof, and the thumb, of her violent but charismatic father, Jack. Yet home is exactly where she ends up after an SUV plows into her car just weeks after she graduates from college, fracturing her wrist and her hopes to start a career as an artist.

Special promotional push to LGBTQ literary groups and publications, including OutWrite DC and Lambda Literary Regional author tour, likely focused on New England and the East Coast (Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Virginia, North Carolina) Review and coverage push to outlets where Laura has previously published and has personal connections, including The Week, DAME Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, AV Club, Vulture, SPIN, Indiewire, Nylon, HuffPost, Los Angeles Review of Books, Salon, The Rumpus, and The Nervous Breakdown Ambitious galley push to likely publications, such a Jezebel, Them.us, The Advocate, Paste, Vox, Bitch, Bust, Bustle, Ms., Buzzfeed, Argo, Gay magazine, Slate, Guernica, Folio, Tin House Online, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Poets & Writers, The Paris Review, Hip Mama, CALYX Journal, and Flavorwire Joint events intended with VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, CityLit Project, The Writers Center, the Kratz Center for Creative Writing, and more Forthcoming blurbs from Amanda Sparks, Rene Denfield, and Lydia Yuknavitch Book group outreach to social Justice Book Club at Kramerbooks, Feminist Book Club, the Gertie Book Club, Lambda Literary Online Book Club, and the Busboys and Poets Book Clubs Blurb requests out to Gina Frangello, Mary Gaitskill, Joyce Carol Oates, Eileen Miles, Janet Fitch, Jen Ponton, Gabby Rivera, Carla Ciccone, and Lili Loofbourow Special bookstore mailing to local stores, including Atomic Books, Bird in Hand, Red Emma’s, The Ivy, The Book Escape, Charlotte Elliott & The Bookstore Next Door, Kramerbooks, Politics and Prose, Greedy Reads - Baltimore, Loyalty Books, and Busboys and Poets Promotion through the author’s robust social media accounts Major awards push Co-op budget available Electronic galleys available on Edelweiss

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The last place Angelina Moltisanti ever wants to go is home. She barely escaped life under the roof, and the thumb, of her violent but charismatic father, Jack. Yet home is exactly where she ends up after an SUV plows into her car just weeks after she graduates from college, fracturing her wrist and her hopes to start a career as an artist.

Angelina finds herself smothered in a plaster cast, in Jack's obsessive urge to get her a giant accident settlement, in her mother Marie's desperation to have a second chance, and in her own stifled creativityβ€”until she meets Janet, another young artist who inspires her to push herself into making the dynamic, unsettling work that tells the story of her scars, inside and out.

But excavating this damage, as relations with her father become increasingly tense, will push Angelina into making a hard choice: will she embrace her father's all-consuming and empowering rage, or find another kind of strength?

Don't You Know I Love You is a compelling exploration of the themes of family, creativity, and the search for personal strength beyond inherited trauma.

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Don't You Know I Love You, Laura Bogart's debut, has been praised for its probing examination of domestic abuse, threading the impact of past violence throughout its narrative. Reviewers commend Bogart's thoughtful prose and emotional depth in portraying an abuse survivor's inner world, combining beauty and brutality to offer a compassionate and humane story of recovery and self-discovery. The novel has been compared to classics exploring familial abuse, with its depiction of an artist reimagining her life amidst a backdrop of familial violence being highlighted for its courage and insight.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781950539130

Publisher: Dzanc Books

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 April 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: Dzanc Books

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 139.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 224

About the Author

Laura Bogart is a nonfiction writer who focuses on personal essays, pop culture, film and TV, feminism, body image and sizeism, and politics (among other topics). She is a featured contributor to The Week and DAME magazine; her work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, SPIN, The AV Club, Vulture, and Indiewire (among other publications).

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