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When a failed motivational coach takes over a camp for anxious and depressed adults and hires earnest anxious and depressed college students to run it, Cat McCarthy has to save her beloved home even if it means losing everything else in the process.

That’s the premise behind Ann Garvin’s “funny, huge-hearted” novel, Bummer Camp (Lake Union Publishing), which is available Sept. 1.  As part of the book launch, Garvin is offering “a summer camp for grown-ups” Aug. 23-25 in the Wisconsin woods. While it’s sold out, you can join the waitlist.

Good Morning America describes Garvin’s work best: “Ann Garvin writes brilliantly about women.” Library Journal says Garvin is laugh-out-loud funny,” and Bob Eckstein, New York Times bestselling author of Footnotes from the Most Fascinating Museums, says “after finishing Bummer Camp, I see why Ann Garvin is so beloved. Ann is a fabulous storyteller, a master writer, and just plain very funny.”

Garvin is the author of five other novels: There’s No Coming Back From This, I Thought You Said This Would Work, I Like You Just Fine When You’re Not Around, The Dog Year and On Maggie’s Watch. She teaches creative writing at Drexel University in its low-residency Master’s of Fine Arts program and lives in Wisconsin with her anxious and overly protective dog Peanut. She is the founder of the multiple award-winning Tall Poppy Writers and is dedicated to helping authors find readers and vice versa.