10 Moos & Mark Your Calendars

Dear friends,
My most exciting update of my summer is that I have searched far and wide and found another 10 MOO ice cream that truly makes life worth living. It is ALLEYWAY ICE CREAM located in the charming Hudson Valley town of Saugerties, NY, aptly, down a small alley. It is made by hand, four quarts at a time. I suggest the strawberry buttermilk and, most of all, the ube heathbar crunch (pictured below). What is ube, you ask? A sweet purple yam that is v trendy right now, so much so that Trader Joe's sold out of its stock of its Ube Ice Cream in stores nationwide within days (and still hasn't brought it back!)

In book related news, I've confirmed a few dates for a little book tour. If you want me to come to your town, go to your local bookstore and demand it!
Come say hi:
1/22/20: Books Are Magic (Brooklyn)
1/23/20: Free Library of Philadelphia (Philly)--*with Sarah Marshall
1/29/20: Politics & Prose Union Market (DC)
3/18-22/20: Virginia Festival of the Book (Charlottesville)--exact date TBD
And a few more people I respect said some very nice things about the book:
"The Third Rainbow Girl is a staggering achievement of reportage, memoir, and sociological reckoning. We are better for this brilliant, gorgeous, and deeply humane book."
—Carmen Maria Machado, National Book Award nominated author of Her Body and Other Parties

“The Third Rainbow Girl succeeds on two levels: first, as a deep dive inquiry into the 1980 murders of two young women in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, and the ensuing, tangled investigation, and second, as an intimate and humane portrait of a close-knit Appalachian community, the kind of place that is often reduced by outsiders as little more than a cliché of itself. As Jimmy Breslin once wrote of the legendary New York chronicler, Damon Runyan, ‘He did what all great reporters do...He hung out.’ A remarkable book.”
—Richard Price, New York Times bestselling author of Lush Life

That's all! Go get ice cream before summer's all gone.
love, Emma