About the book: TELL TWO FRIENDS is a wickedly funny and empowering thriller about women, the manipulators who underestimate them, and keeping your dignity while saving the day by the author of I Thought You Said This Would Work.

Jane Baye is a regular person, good at a lot of things, but identifying the serial killer right in front of her isn’t one of them. In 1990, college senior Jane wrote to an incarcerated woman because it seemed like a nice thing to do. Thirty-six years later, that felon, actually a man, has moved in next door. He’s watching her every move, with a decades-long plan for Jane that a nice person like her would never see coming.

Especially because Jane is wrapped up in her own problems: a small-town golden boy with talk of forever and a diabolical history of cheating. When she exposes her ex, the entire town of Wonder Lake turns against her. It’s no wonder she doesn’t see what’s coming on the night of the Norwegian heritage festival. But woe to those who mistake Jane for a pushover. When celebration becomes a fight for survival, the very qualities that make her ordinary become the weapons she’ll bet everything on.

About Ann Garvin: Ann Garvin, Ph.D. is the USA Today Bestselling author and finalist for the Thomas Wolf Fiction Prize. She is the author of six funny and sad novels. She writes about people who do too much in a world that asks too much from them.

Ann worked as an RN and, after receiving her PhD, taught Exercise Physiology and Health Psychology for thirty years in the University of Wisconsin system. She currently teaches creative writing at Drexel University in their low residency Masters of Fine Arts program and has held positions at Miami University and Southern New Hampshire in their Masters of Fine Arts Creative Writing programs.

About Jeff Oloizia: Jeff Oloizia is a writer based in Madison. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, INTERVIEW, Madison Magazine, and T: The New York Times Style Magazine, where he was previously an editor. His work has been recognized as notable in The Best American Essays and The Best American Science and Nature Writing. He earned an MFA in fiction from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and is the creator and host of Writing Forward, a podcast featuring conversations with writers shaped by Wisconsin.

Ann Garvin in Conversation with Jeff Oloizia