Meet the Author: Tampa: A Novel by Alissa Nutting

Not only is Alissa Nutting, an assistant professor of creative writing at John Carroll University and the author of the award-winning collection of stories Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, a Lakewood author, but much of her highly-anticipated debut novel was written here at the Library!

For a junior high English teacher, Celeste Price is undeniably hot. She drives a red Corvette with tinted windows. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed, and devoted to her. But Celeste's devotion lies elsewhere. She has a singular sexual obsession—fourteen-year-old boys—and the luscious and naïve Jack Patrick is more than willing to accept her terms for a secret relationship. Ever mindful of the risk of exposure, insatiable Celeste flies over each hurdle with swift thinking and shameless determination. In slaking her sexual thirst, she proves that she is remorseless, a monstress driven by pure motivation. She deceives everyone, and cares nothing for anyone or anything but her own pleasure. And the clock is ticking on the last innocent moments of Jack’s remaining boyhood... With crackling, rampantly unadulterated prose, Tampa is a grand, uncompromising, seriocomic examination of want and a scorching literary debut. Books will be available for sale and signing at the event.