After years of writing, reading, revising, waiting, planning, and worrying, The Book of Life has finally been published. I saw it for sale for the first time, fittingly, in a bookstore near where I grew up. This was two weeks ago now, and I hadn’t been planning to see it sitting there on the table. Like so much about these stories, this caught me by surprise: they’d just gone out into the word without letting me know.

Here’s some photographic evidence of the moment, as well some high praise for the stories from Shelf Awareness.

“Blessedly dark ironic humor is a supreme talent that Nadler displays in telling these tales… A dazzling debut short story collection replete with characters wrestling with guilt and regret but fighting for lives with humor, spirit and the odd transgression.”  Read the complete review here