Meet Michele Tracy Berger, author of Reenu-You at Wonderland Book Club

Join us at Wonderland Book Club, co-sponsored by the NC Writers’ Network:

Meet Michele Tracy Berger, author of Reenu-You

Location: ONLINE via ZOOM Conference. FREE!

Friday, April 24, 2020
Time: 10:00 a.m. to noon
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Registration URL: https://us04web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYodO2qrj4sGpLsqHBiPWdcrE6ARfxg9A

ABOUT THE BOOK:

Kat is an out of work ski instructor who just wants to pack up her deceased mother's things, leave New York, and return to Aspen. Constancia is a talented but troubled young woman who just wants to start her first semester of college. In different shops across New York City, they and hundreds of other women of color try a new hair relaxer called "Reenu-You." Then things start to go horribly awry.

Within days, they find themselves covered in purple scab-like lesions--a rash that pulses, oozes, and spreads in spiral patterns. They are at the epicenter of a mysterious virus spreading throughout the city. As the outbreak spreads and new cases pop up in Black and Latino communities throughout New York, panic, anger, and questions fill the streets.

What is this virus and where did it come from?

Is it corporate malfeasance?

Or is this an orchestrated plot to kill minority women?

In the face of a terrifying and uncertain future, Kat, Constancia, and a small band of other affected women are forced to confront their deepest fears to save themselves and others. As the world crumbles around them, they will discover more about each other, learn about themselves, and draw strength to face the future together. Reenu-You looks at the social and political meanings of hair, female friendships, and viruses.

Here's the link on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/Reenu-You-Tracy-Berger-Michele/dp/1645540286/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=reenu+you&qid=1585341991&s=books&sr=1-1

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Michele Tracy Berger describes herself as a writer, professor, and pug-lover. Reenu-You, Michele's sci-fi novella was originally published in 2017 by Book Smugglers Publishing. It was reissued this January by Falstaff Books. In addition to science fiction, she writes poetry and creative non-fiction. Her work has appeared in The Feminist Wire, Ms. Magazine, WNC Woman, as well as several published anthologies. Her other fiction works can be found in UnCommon Origins: A Collection of Gods, Monsters, Nature and Science by Fighting Monkey Press, You Don’t Say: Stories in the Second Person by Ink Monkey Press, Flying South: A Literary Journal, 100wordstory, Thing Magazine, and The Red Clay Review.

Michele lives in Pittsboro, North Carolina, with her partner Tim.

Her Reenu-You speculative fiction/horror novella deals with a group of five highly-individual women, each distinctly different from the rest, who find themselves at the center of a gruesome epidemic.