Double Book Launch: Householders and Chemical Valley
Biblioasis
Michaela Stephen - mstephen@biblioasis.com - 5199153930
You're invited to the double book launch of two exciting Biblioasis books: Kate Cayley's HOUSEHOLDERS and David Huebert's CHEMICAL VALLEY! Tune in live on Thursday, September 29 at 7 PM EDT / 8 PM ADT. Kate Cayley and David Huebert will be joined in conversation by author Sofi Papamarko. Co-hosted by Another Story Bookshop. There will be readings, discussions, an audience Q&A, and a book giveaway. You could win a copy of one of the new books!
We'll be streaming live on Facebook & on YouTube. Video link will be shared closer to the event date. RSVP to the Facebook event to stay up to date!
ABOUT HOUSEHOLDERS:
Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters’ overlapping lives.
A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. From a university campus to an underground bunker, a commune in the woods to Toronto and back again, the linked stories in Householders move effortlessly between the commonplace and the fantastic. In deft and exacting narratives about difficult children and thorny friendships, hopeful revolutionaries and self-deluded utopians, nascent queers, sincere frauds, and families of all kinds, Kate Cayley mines the moral hazards inherent in the ways we try to save each other and ourselves.
ABOUT KATE CAYLEY:
Kate Cayley has previously written a short story collection, two poetry collections, and a number of plays, both traditional and experimental, which have been produced in Canada and the US. She is a frequent writing collaborator with immersive company Zuppa Theatre. She has won the Trillium Book Award and an O. Henry Prize and been a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. She lives in Toronto with her wife and their three children.
ABOUT CHEMICAL VALLEY:
Oil-soaked and swamp-born, the bruised optimism of Huebert’s stories offer sincere appreciation of the beauty of our wilted, wheezing world.
From city-dwelling preppers to long term care nurses, dishwashers to professional hockey enforcers to refinery workers, Chemical Valley’s caring and carefully-wrought stories cultivate rich human emotional worlds in all the dankness of our bio-chemical animacy. Full-hearted, laced throughout with bruised optimism and a sincere appreciation of the profound beauty of our wilted, wheezing world, Chemical Valley does not shy away from urgent modern questions—the distribution of toxicity, environmental racism, the future of technology, the climate, and the human body—but it grounds these anxieties in vivid and often humorous intricacies of its characters’ lives. These are stories about big questions, but they are not scared of sentiment. Swamp-wrought, they run wild with vital energy, tilt and teeter into crazed and delirious loves.
ABOUT DAVID HUEBERT:
David Huebert’s writing has won the CBC Short Story Prize, The Walrus Poetry Prize, and was a finalist for the 2020 Journey Prize. David’s fiction debut, Peninsula Sinking, won a Dartmouth Book Award, was shortlisted for the Alistair MacLeod Short Fiction Prize, and was runner-up for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. David’s work has been published in magazines such as The Walrus, Maisonneuve, enRoute, and Canadian Notes & Queries, and anthologized in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories. David teaches at The University of King’s College in K’jipuktuk/Halifax, where he lives and writes.
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Order HOUSEHOLDERS: http://biblioasis.com/shop/forthcoming/householders/
Order CHEMICAL VALLEY: http://biblioasis.com/shop/forthcoming/chemical-valley/
