Join us for another installment of Novel Night, a monthly celebration of all things prose! Here’s how it works: two published authors will read from their books and there’ll be an audience Q & A. And we’ll also have “Book Talk,” in which an intrepid Malvern staff member will introduce you to one of our favorite prose titles. Also worth noting: we’re offering 20% OFF ALL FICTION TITLES during Novel Night (from 6pm till closing).

This month’s Novel Night features Brittani Sonnenberg and Adeena Reitberger. Brittani will read from her novel Home Leave, which filmmaker Wim Wenders called “a captivating tour de force that follows a nomadic family across generations and continents.” Adeena will share with us some of her short fiction.

Brittani Sonnenberg (above left) is the author of the novel Home Leave, selected as a New York Times Editor’s Choice. She was raised across three continents and has worked as a journalist in Germany, China, and throughout Southeast Asia. A graduate of Harvard, she received her MFA in fiction from the University of Michigan. Her fiction has been published in The O. Henry Prize Stories as well as Ploughshares, Short Fiction, and Asymptote. Her nonfiction has appeared in Time, Associated Press, Hairpin, and NPR Berlin. She is a freelance editor and writer for Tribeza Magazine and a visiting creative writing instructor and thesis advisor at Hong Kong University’s MFA Program.

Adeena Reitberger (above right) is a writer, editor, and teacher in Austin, Texas. Her stories and essays have been published in magazines like Mississippi Review, Cimarron Review, Nimrod International Journal, Black Warrior Review, Sierra Nevada Review, NANO Fiction, and elsewhere, and her essay “Here Is Always Somewhere Else” was listed as a notable in Best American Essays. She is the coeditor of American Short Fiction, an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Austin Community College, and an advisory board member of Conflict of Interest.