DIANA WAGMAN reads from her newest novel LIFE #6

Life #6 (Ig Publishing)

 Best-selling and critically acclaimed author Diana Wagman brings us another suspenseful tale about a woman facing death.

Fiona's marriage is crumbling, and she has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. Caught up in a wave of memories as she faces her own mortality, Fiona recalls the five previous times in her life that she nearly died, including a fateful boat trip thirty years ago with her former boyfriend, Luc. She flees her life, struggling marriage, and cancer treatment to rendezvous with Luc, in the process reliving the harrowing boat trip the two of them shared three decades earlier, which permanently altered their lives. Now that Fiona desperately needs Luc to save her, will he be the man she remembers? Or will she discover heartbreak again?

An adventurous, emotionally complex tale inspired by Diana Wagman's own experience at sea, Life #6 explores the folly of youth, what happens to us when we're pushed to the brink, the regrets of love lost, and what it really means to love, as well as the many ways we die and are renewed throughout our lives.

Diana Wagman is the author of five novels, most recently Life #6.  Her second novel, Spontaneous, won the 2001 USA Pen West Award for Fiction.  Her fourth novel, The Care & Feeding of Exotic Pets, won a Barnes & Noble Discover New Writers award.    Her short stories and essays have appeared in Salon, Black Clock,Conjunctions, and elsehwere and as part of the n+1 anthology MFA vs NYC. She is an occasional contributor to the LA Times.