RSVPs to the book launch event are full. If you wish to come June 1, 8PM and see if there is space, you may, but there is no guarantee of entry.
PRE-ORDER your copy and pick it up at STANZA starting June 1, 3 days before the official release date.
June 1, we will launch this exciting and important new novel and host author Danny Goodman for readings, conversation, and signing.
Danny will be in conversation with Pushcart Prize winner and director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz Kristopher Jansma.
About the novel
In a reimagined present day, two athletes find themselves in NYC for World Day—a sporting event meant to celebrate international peace. For years, Sabine was regarded as a tennis legend, until an act of violence threatened her life and career. Now, she is determined to stand before the crowds once again a winner. Sandy is the beloved star of his hometown baseball team, but a recent horrific antisemitic crime nearly unravels him. Their lives are forever changed when a massive terrorist attack strikes World Day. As Sabine and Sandy emerge from this destruction, their journeys take them across the Atlantic and back again, where they come to understand how they are each connected to the attack—connections veiled by shocking family secrets and geopolitical motivations.
After these revelations, they’ll have to decide if their love and friendship can bridge a path forward. In striking resonance with today’s rising antisemitism, Amerikaland tells the emotional story of people battling their histories and charting their own fates.
Danny Goodman
Danny Goodman's writing has appeared in various publications, and he was the recipient of a writer-in-residence fellowship from Rivendell. He earned his MFA in Fiction from the University of New Orleans, where he was a two-time winner of the Samuel Mockbee Award. He lives in Beacon with his wife, a book editor, and their editorial cats. AMERIKALAND is his debut novel.
Kristopher Jansma
Kristopher Jansma is the author of the forthcoming book Revisionaries: What We Can Learn from the Lost, Unfinished, and Just Plain Bad Work of Great Writers (Quirk Books, 10/15) as well as the novel Our Narrow Hiding Places (Ecco, 8/13). His previous novels are Why We Came to the City and The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards. He is the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, as well as the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN/Hemingway Award. Kristopher is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz.