A Manual for How to Love Us: An Evening with Erin Slaughter

A debut, interlinked collection of stories exploring the primal nature of women’s grief—offering insight into the profound experience of loss and the absurd ways in which we seek control in an unruly world.

Tombolo Books is thrilled to welcome author Erin Slaughter to the bookstore for a conversation about her debut story collection, A Manual for How to Love Us!

Seamlessly shifting between the speculative and the blindingly real, balancing the bizarre with the subtle brutality of the mundane, A Manual for How to Love Us is a tender portrait of women trying their best to survive, love, and find genuine meaning in the aftermath of loss.

Set across oft-overlooked towns in the American South, A Manual for How to Love Us spotlights women who are living on the brink and clinging to its precipitous edge. Lyrical and surprisingly humorous, this collection is an exciting debut that reveals the sticky complications of living in a body, in all its grotesquerie and glory.