Good books do stand the test of time. Esteemed writer André Aciman’s Lambda Award-winning 2007 debut novel, Call Me By Your Name (Picador USA), is one such book, one that has always enjoyed a readership. That has moved to another realm with the hugely acclaimed Luca Guadagnino film based on this novel sending readers to find the source. Dave Wheeler, Associate Editor at Shelf Awareness, will be moderating tonight’s conversation.

As part of tonight’s festivities, our friends at Queer Bar have invited attendees to a special after-reading meet and greet with the author. Queer Bar is located at 1518 11th Avenue, one block from Elliott Bay Book Company.

“An extraordinary examination of longing and the complicated ways in which we negotiate the experience of attraction….It’s startling that a novel so bracingly unsentimental—alert to the ways we manipulate, second-guess, forestall, and finally reach stumblingly toward one another—concludes with such emotional depths.” –Mark Doty, O, The Oprah Magazine

“If you are prepared to take a hard punch in your gut, and like brave, acute, elated, naked, brutal, tender, humane, and beautiful prose, then you’ve come to the right place.” –Nicole Krauss

André Aciman is also known for his 1995 memoir, Out of Egypt, other nonfiction works, and then other novels, most recent being last year’s Enigma Variations.