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BookReporter TMS giveaway

BookReporter's Fall Preview Contest giveaway today is TMS. Win a free copy below. Deadline is 11:59AM.
http://www.bookreporter.com/features/...

TMS is an ABA Bestseller

Sandwiched between Tartt and Pynchon. Nice sandwich. Amazing.

Thank you, Library Journal

for you rave review of TMS. Here's the final sentence. "Rojstaczer, a PhD geophysicist, has created a complex and chaotic rainbow of characters that makes his first novel both comedic and compelling."

My first post as this week’s Visiting Scribe

for the Jewish Book Council is here. Enjoy.

Palo Alto and Seattle

Palo Alto, blintzes and vodka.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seattle, dim sum and beer.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Total books signed so far: about 80. Two stops down and ten to go!

Thank you, Durham Herald-Sun

These reviews aren’t making my head swell, I swear. That said, it’s incredibly gratifying to read words like these.

Reading Group Guide and glossary available next week

It'll be on the Penguin Reading Guide website here (I think):
http://www.penguin.com/read/book-club...

I answer Penguin editorial staff's perceptive questions and you get zippy translations of all those Yiddish, Polish, Russian and Hebrew words in The Mathematician's Shiva.

My tour starts this Saturday

Here’s where I’ll be. Much easier to find than Waldo. And if you’re in the vicinity of any of these stops, come!

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Goodreads giveaway of The Mathematician's Shiva

Penguin is running a giveaway of my novel. 25 copies available to US citizens (Canadians got their copies from Penguin last month!). You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll learn some essential math. Drawing is completely random, I'm told (I asked for a say, but they said no, no, no.)

Enter the giveaway here:
https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sh...

The early reviews have made me smile from ear to ear:

“High math, Eastern European history, and American culture converge in this hugely entertaining debut from geophysicist Rojstaczer…. [A] multilayered story of family, genius, and loss.”
–Publishers Weekly

“The Mathematician’s Shiva is a delight: Rojstaczer… delivers a smart, funny debut novel about family dynamics, the immigrant experience and the elegance of mathematics.”
–San Jose Mercury News

“The Mathematician’s Shiva” is for everyone…. It’s about family expectations, overcoming obstacles and breaking down gender-role stereotypes, while teaching the value of intellect. It’s a lesson in history, religion, Eastern European culture and, of course, math, which Rojstaczer says is ‘the equivalent of teenage texting, but for geeks.’ But at its core, it’s a story about an eccentric family, not in the traditional, slapstick Hollywood way, but in the prominent, high achieving way. The kind of family dysfunction you’d be happy to have.”
–Boston Herald

Thank you, San Jose Mercury News

for your rave review of The Mathematician’s Shiva. Amazing.