Metuchen author Alyson Mosquera Du Temple will read from and discuss her new book of stories, Marvelous Freaks of Nature. She will be joined by Millburn author Doris W. Cheng. Copies will be available for purchase and signing.

About the Author:

Alyson Mosquera Dutemple is a writer from New Jersey. Her stories have appeared in Alaska Quarterly Review, Colorado Review, and Passages North, among many others. She is a recipient of a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and has received support from Millay Arts and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts.

About the Book:

An amateur herpetologist gets swindled by women he meets on lizard-care message boards, a dental hygienist takes a doomed trip to see a sham psychic on the Atlantic City boardwalk, a gruesome gag gift becomes the subject of morbid fascination for a grieving woman who can't stop sleeping with her roommate's boyfriend. With surgical focus and an infectious dark humor, Alyson Mosquera Dutemple's stories probe a vein of longing and estrangement. From oddballs and lonely hearts living on the fringes of suburbia to stunning abnormalities pulled out from Mother Nature's bag of tricks, Marvelous Freaks of Nature! is a delightfully sly study of the shadowy crannies of the human heart. A dazzling debut so full of life it hurts.