Log Off

The author will be joined in conversation by Emily Hessney Lynch.

In the early 2000s, from a dial-up connection in a Western New York suburb, sixteen-year-old Ellora Gao logs on to the Internet to start a secret LiveJournal. Abandoned as a child by her troubled mother and left with her former stepfather Brian, an emotionally distant alcoholic, Ellora hopes to find the close relationships online that are missing from her real life As the school year unfolds, Ellora shares every challenge she faces with her growing LiveJournal readership: memories of her estranged mother, frustration with her guardian’s lack of parenting, concern for Alice’s health, romantic feelings for a friend, and her place in a post-Y2K world on the cusp of major change.

“Log Off [is] an indelibly wise coming-of-age story crackling with humor and nostalgia. Felicetti will heal you, delight you, and make you want to hug your younger self; Log Off is an instant classic, a heartbreaker and a balm, and we’re all the luckier for it.”—T Kira Māhealani Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

Kristen Felicetti is the author of the novel Log Off. For over a decade, she edited the literary magazine The Bushwick Review. She is based in Rochester, NY.

Emily Hessney Lynch is a social media consultant, writer, professor, and the founder of Serve Me the Sky Digital.

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