ELLE Presents the 2012 Readers Prize Pick: Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann

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Join Liza Klaussmann, the great-great-great granddaughter of Herman Melville, in conversation with ELLE Magazine’s Catherine Straut as they discuss the stunning debut Tigers in Red Weather.

The first 50 attendees will receive a FREE Copy of the July issue of ELLEMagazine, featuring Tigers in Red Weather!

This novel won top vote against two other novels from readers of ELLEMagazine, and is receiving rave early praise from booksellers and trade publications alike. A STARRED Publishers Weekly review says, “Klaussmann’s carefully crafted soap opera skillfully commingles mystery with melodrama, keeping readers guessing about what really happened until the end…The shocking finale, seen through Ed’s all-knowing eyes, scintillates as much as it satisfies.”

Tigers in Red Weather by Liza Klaussmann is a riveting, Gatsby-esque debut novel about a murder that disrupts a family’s life on mid-century Martha’s Vineyard, written by the great-great-great-granddaughter of Herman Melville. With multiple points of view and characters that recall those of John Cheever and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Liza weaves a riveting story about a family in New England high society forced to reckon with what lies just under the skin. Liza grew up spending her summers on the Vineyard in the family home where she and her brother return every summer, and those memories helped knit together the setting, tastes, smells, sounds, and feelings that create the almost tangible beauty that permeates Tigers in Red Weather.

Nick and her cousin, Helena, grew up in the glow of good fortune, blithely running around Tiger House, the family’s rambling home on Martha’s Vineyard. On the brink of the 1960s, Helena and Nick are back at Tiger House as adults, with their respective children, Ed and Daisy, and Nick’s husband, Hughes. Daisy has inherited all of Nick’s fire, if not more, and is obsessed with becoming a champion at tennis. Ed, it might seem, is obsessed with Daisy. Then Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder—and everything starts to unravel. As the members of the family spin out of their accustomed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will be the same.

Liza Klaussmann has worked as a journalist for the New York Times since 2001. She recently completed with distinction an MA in creative writing at Royal Holloway, in London, where she lives.