Beep by Bill Roorbach

Join us for a celebratory birthday bash with Bill Roorbach! It's his birthday party but he'll be reading from and discussing his latest novel Beep! Joining Bill in conversation for the evening is author Lily King.

An ebullient funny and hugely original novel told from the perspective of Beep a squirrel monkey who—with the help of a brilliant young girl— forges the way forward for a planet in crisis.​

For fans of Shelby Van Pelt’s Remarkably Bright Creatures and Dave Eggers’s The Eyes and the Impossible Beep is full of humor inspiration and remarkable new ways of understanding how we live. Urgent but never earnest in the face of the increasing threats to our planet Beep the monkey inspires us all to stop being the problem and start being the solution loving and laughing all the way.

Bill Roorbach is the author of ten books including the Montana Award-winning Lucky Turtle The Girl of the Lake the Kirkus Prize finalist The Remedy for Love the bestselling Life Among Giants and the Flannery O’Connor Award–winning collection Big Bend. Roorbach has received fellowships from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. His craft book Writing Life Stories has been in print for over twenty-five years. His writing has appeared in Harper’s the New York Times Magazine the AtlanticThe New York Times Book Review Ploughshares Granta Ecotone New York magazine The American Scholar and other publications. He lives in Maine with his family.

Lily King is the author of the novels The Pleasing Hour The English Teacher Father of the Rain and Euphoria one of the New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2014 and winner of the Kirkus Prize. She lives in Maine.

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