Cassandra Neyenesch discussing A LITTLE BIT BAD with Sandy Robertson May 29TH at 7:00PM

Join us for a special in-store event with author Cassandra Neyenesch celebrating the release of A Little Bit Bad. The evening will feature a conversation with Cassandra Neyenesch, moderated by author Sandy Robertson, followed by an audience Q&A and book signing.

Your Ticket includes a copy of A Little Bit Bad, which publishes on May 5th. Pick up your book in store on release day so that you can dive in before the event! 

This is a ticketed event. Tickets are available exclusively with the purchase of A Little Bit Bad from The Spine & Vine Bookstore.

• Only customers who purchase the book from The Spine & Vine will be admitted.
• Space is limited, so we recommend ordering in advance to secure your spot.
• Purchasing from The Spine & Vine helps support future author events.

Book Signing & Personalization Guidelines

• Limit: One (1) personalized book per customer.
• Personalization includes name (and date, if requested).
• Additional books may be brought for signing, but will be signed only.
• The author will sign all copies of A Little Bit Bad.

Ordering a Signed Book (Attending the Event)

1. Add this product to your cart. 
2. Select "In-store Pickup"
3. Your book will be ready for you to pick up by May 5th, 2026 (PUB DAY). *Don't forget to bring your book back to sign on the day of our event, May 29, 2026. 

Ordering a Signed or Personalized Book (NOT Attending the Event)

1. Add this product to your cart. 
2. Select "In-store Pickup"
3. In the "order comments" box write "signed only" or to whom your book(s) should be personalized (i.e. "To: Ms. Smith"). As each customer is limited to a single personalization, please specify which book you would like personalized in the order comments. Requests for anything beyond a name, like a note or quote, are up to the author's discretion and are not guaranteed. 
4. Your book will be ready for you to pick up at The Spine & Vine Bookstore after the event on May 29th, 2026.

Meet the Author: Cassandra Neyenesch

Cassandra Neyenesch is a Brooklyn-based writer, activist, and curator. Neyenesch’s reviews and cultural pieces have appeared in The Guardian, Brooklyn Rail, HuffPost, Public Books, The International Herald Tribune, and Art in America.

About the Moderator: Sandy Robertson

An essay by Sandy Robertson published in the Colorado Review received honorable mention in The Best American Essays, 2023. In addition to her short fiction, she has a novel forthcoming and is writing a memoir.

About A Little Bit Bad

“A feisty true-crime obsessive’s erotic awakening.” —Ada Calhoun, author of Crush

A “compulsively readable” (Sophie Stava, author of Count My Lies) novel about a San Diego housewife whose love affair with her neighbor’s roofer is interrupted by a murder.

Perdita Jungfrau thought she was going to be married to her husband forever, so falling in love with Nando, her neighbor’s anarcho-Marxist roofer, is a crisis. Life seems to put every possible obstacle in their way: she’s pregnant, he has a girlfriend, he’s fifteen years younger, she’s terrified of messing up her children and equally drawn towards this magnetic man who entrusts her with his deepest secret.

Now it’s three years later and Nando has been murdered.

As her bewildered husband tries to make sense of the wildly unpredictable person his wife has become, Perdita has other things on her mind. For starters, who is the mysterious woman sitting outside her house in a parked car all day? How can she stop her adored baby brother from being pulled under by his opioid addiction? Can someone with a childhood like hers ever be the mother her children deserve?

And most of all, what should she do with the searing memories of the affair which turned her life upside down?