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LESLIE BRENNERWednesday , March 7 at 5 : 30 p.m
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LESLIE BRENNERWednesday , March 7 at 5 : 30 p.m
Noted nonfiction writer Leslie Brenner , most known for American Appetite , appears here tonight with her deliciously satirical first novel , Greetings from the Golden State ( Holt ) .Set in the Valley ( San Fernando , that would be ) during the Cold War , Greetings from the Golden State takes us into the life of underachieving overachiever Andrew Kelbow -- whose entertainment lawyer father has just left his mother.Leslie Brenner is an original , with a true comic vision : she has the knack of transforming the most ordinary details of modern life , with hilarious deadpan poignancy.Everything is both recognizable and estranged in this lopsided fairy tale of the pursuit of happiness and culinary satisfaction. -- Philip Lopate.