Jaimy Gordon, a recent winner of the National Book Award, will be at Nicola's for a reading and signing of her latest novel 'Lord of Misrule' on Monday, Dec. 6 at 7 p.m. The novel is a darkly realistic look at a young woman living through a year of horse racing at a half-mile track in West Virginia, while everyone's best laid schemes keep going brutally wrong

Gordon was born in Baltimore and has degrees from Antioch College and Brown University and is now a teacher at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College and an Academy-Institute Award from the American Institute of Arts and Letters. In addition to two novels, she has published poetry, plays, short stories and essays.

For more information on this event contact us at 734-662-0600 or at www.nicolasbooks.com.