On Tour 11/09/23-01/20/23 “Alpha Bette” by Jennifer Manocherian

Release Date: September 12, 2023

About The Book:

Bette Gartner, a ninety-five-year-old widow, wakes up one morning and decides to throw a dinner party that night for her small family, staff, two neighbors, and a medium—and no one knows why.

The story takes place over the course of the day and is told through the multiple points of view of Bette’s guests, switching back and forth between them as we learn about their motivations, dreams, hopes, and fears. These various storylines converge at the dinner table, where the coming together of different personalities, each with their own tensions and pain points, erupts into epiphanies, resolutions, and new beginnings before the final act of the evening Bette has planned.

Alpha Bette is more than the story of a particular family’s history. Aside from recounting how the characters navigate the daily mundanities of urban life, it also dwells on their larger existential anxieties and the impact of the holes and absences that deceased and displaced loved ones leave behind.

About The Author:

Jennifer Manocherian has had almost more careers than a cat has lives. While this is her first novel, she has been done public relations, been a family therapist, divorce mediator, theatre producer, musical bookwriter, screenwriter and now novelist. A longtime Scarsdale resident, she is married with five children and fifteen grandchildren, making her a mother-in-law and grandmother-in-law as well, providing her with tons of material. And last but not least, she has two dogs and two cats. www.jennifermanocherian.net

Social Media:

Instagram: https://instagram.com/jennifermanocherian

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jmanocherian/

Book Blurbs:

A riveting, intergenerational New York City novel that focuses on unique ‘families’ that are created in an urban neighborhood, where everyone depends on one another and knows one another’s secrets—or thinks they do. Jennifer Manocherian has written unforgettable characters with breathtaking surprises.

JIMIN HAN Author of The Apology and A Small Revolution

Alpha Bette pulls you in from the first line. Its marvelous cast of characters are complex, and their stories are warmly relatable. You won’t want to say goodbye, but you don’t have to because they will stay with you long after you read the last line.

PATRICIA (AKA T.M.) DUNN Author of Rebels by Accident, Last Stop on the 6, and Her Father’s Daughter

Alpha Bette is a fast-paced story that details the lives of Bette’s diverse family and friends who mirror so many families across our country today. Jennifer Manocherian finds both the frustrations and the magic within everyday circumstances and offers each of us the hope that we, too, can live all our days with style, grace, and in as delightful and happy a manner as possible.

MARCIA BRADLEY Author of The Home for Wayward Girls

How essential are the bonds we form with one another? Change one life, and will the rest fall apart? That’s what I was thinking as I read Jennifer Manocherian’s new book, Alpha Bette. Quirky, entertaining, and surprisingly profound, Alpha Bette will leave you thinking long after you’ve read the last page.

BARBARA JOSSELSOHN Author of The Cranberry Inn, The Lily Garden, The Lilac House, The Bluebell Girls, The Last Dreamer, and Secrets of the Italian Island

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