Tuesday, May 12, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Skylight Books, Los Angeles
 **A riotous revenge novel about a woman’s quest to escape her stalker ex-boyfriend—by stalking him herself. "It’s impossible for a book so chilling, so uncanny, so urgent to also be this funny. _Nerve Damage_ is a major debut.” —Kaveh Akbar, _New York Times_ bestselling author of _Martyr!_** Clarice’s breakup with P.T. began the usual way—she discovered he was cheating. Then came the constant texts, the nonstop emails from burner accounts, countless phone calls from dozens of different numbers. He showed up outside her apartment and her office. He sent her flowers and poems, and, perhaps most sinister of all, a link to the music video for Dido's “White Flag.” Relief arrived only when Clarice finally obtained a restraining order and one-way ticket from New York to L.A. Just as the restraining order expires—and three years to the day since she left him—Clarice spots a man who looks suspiciously like P.T. at a nightclub. Could it be him? Her best friend thinks she’s imagining things. Her therapist wants her to focus on healing her inner child. Her mother is busy planning her wedding to her fourth husband. A psychic medium can reveal only that P.T.’s energy is too volatile to locate on the spiritual plane. As painful memories resurface, Clarice is convinced her ex has returned to ruin her life. But with scant evidence to prove it, she takes increasingly unhinged steps to uncover the truth, ultimately leading to a place where paranoia and reality begin to blur. A profane and poignant debut novel, _Nerve Damage_ is a different kind of survivor narrative, about how far one woman will go to wrest back control of her life in a world determined to send her spiraling. **Annakeara Stinson** is a writer whose work has appeared in _Bustle_, _Brooklyn Magazine_, _The Inquisitive Eater_, _IndieWire_, _Paste_, _Marie Claire,_ and more. She has an M.F.A. in fiction from The New School and currently lives in L.A. **Stephanie Danler** is a novelist and screenwriter. She is the author of the international bestseller _Sweetbitter_ and the creator and executive producer of the _Sweetbitter_ TV series. Her work has appeared in _The Sewanee Review_, _Vogue_, _The New York Times Book Review_, and _The Paris Review Daily_. She lives in Los Angeles, California.