An Evening with M.L. Rio: Celebrating Hot Wax

Schedule

Thu Nov 06 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Upper Dublin Public Library | Fort Washington, PA

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Join us for a night of celebrating all things Hot Wax with M.L. Rio!
About this Event

Join us for An Evening with M.L. Rio: Celebrating Hot Wax at Upper Dublin Public Library! The evening features author M.L. Rio as she tours to discuss her newest novel, Hot Wax. Book sale and signing, too! (In partnership with Reads & Co. Book Shop.)

ABOUT M.L. RIO:

M. L. Rio has been an actor, a bookseller, an academic, and a music writer. She holds an MA in Shakespeare studies and a PhD in English literature. She is the author of the internationally bestselling novel If We Were Villains and the USA Today bestselling novella Graveyard Shift. She never stays in one place for long, but keeps her books, records, and four-legged sidekick in south Philadelphia.

ABOUT HOT WAX:

Hot Wax is “a propulsive father-daughter story” (Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad) and a journey of self-discovery that “captures the joy and danger of rock ’n’ roll” (Publishers Weekly) through one woman’s reckless mission to make sense of the events that shattered her childhood.
Summer, 1989: ten-year-old Suzanne is drawn like a magnet to her father’s forbidden world of electric guitars and tricked-out cars. When her mother remarries, she jumps at the chance to tag along on the concert tour that just might be Gil and the Kills’ wild ride to glory. But fame has sharper fangs than anybody realized, and as the band blazes up the charts, internal power struggles set Gil and his group on a collision course destined for a bloody reckoning—one shrouded in mystery and lore for decades to come.
The only witness to a desperate act of violence, Suzanne spends the next twenty-nine years trying to disappear. She trades the music and mayhem of her youth for the quiet of the suburbs and the company of her mild-mannered husband Rob. But when her father’s sudden death resurrects the troubled past she tried so hard to bury, she leaves it all behind and hits the road in search of answers. Hitching her fate and Gil’s beloved car to two vagabonds who call an old Airstream trailer home, she finds everything she thought she’d lost forever: desire, adventure, and the woman she once wanted to be. But Rob refuses to let her go. Determined to bring her back where she belongs, he chases her across the country—and drives her to a desperation all her own.
Drenched in knock-down drag-out rock and roll, Hot Wax is a raucous, breakneck ride to hell and back—where getting lost might be the only way to find yourself and save your soul.

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Upper Dublin Public Library, 520 Virginia Drive, Fort Washington, United States

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