Karen X. Tulchinsky's LOVE AND OTHER RUINS Sequel to LOVE RUINS EVERYTHING Coming in November

Insomniac Press has announced that they will be publishing a new edition of the sequel to Karen X. Tulchinsky's much-praised first novel, Love Ruins Everything.

This book picks up the story four months later as the characters prepare for the approach of the Millennium. Over the course of the year 1999, Nomi Rabinovitch and her lover, Julie Sakamoto, negotiate the joy and pain of a long-distance relationship; Nomi's cousin Henry devotes more energy to AIDS activism, while coping with intense treatments as his health declines; and Solly and Belle, Henry's estranged parents, are drawn closer by their shared love for their son. And Bubbe, aged somewhere between 92 and 97, might be hard of hearing, but she's certainly not blind to the crazy events swirling around her. Love and Other Ruins combines the happy tale of Nomi and Julie's romantic foibles with the more serious subject of the origins of the AIDS pandemic.

As in her first book, Tulchinsky takes no prisoners in her forthright exposition of the theory that the virus was no accident. A joyful, hilarious, and often very touching story of love, pain, activism, and family, Love and Other Ruins offers readers another chance to spend time with the delightfully engaging Nomi Rabinovitch and her eccentric friends and relatives. Karen X. Tulchinsky is an award-winning novelist and screenwriter.

Her first book, the collection of stories In Her Nature, won the VanCity Book Prize. Her latest novel, The Five Books of Moses Lapinsky, won the 2008 One Book, One Vancouver prize and was a finalist for the Toronto Book Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of British Columbia.