Book Event: Delaney Nolan with Julia Phillips

Book Launch: Delaney Nolan presents Happy Bad

In conversation with Julia Phillips

Wine reception to follow

New Orleans-based author Delaney Nolan launches her debut novel Happy Bad, a moving display of human connection in the face of violence and climate destruction. Set at a chronically underfunded residential treatment center in near-future East Texas—teeming with enraged teenage girls on either too many or not enough drugs—when a heat wave triggers a massive, sustained blackout, Beatrice, the other staff, and residents must all evacuate. Facing police brutality, sweltering heat, panicked evacuees, the girls’ mounting withdrawal, and the consequences of her own lies, they search for a route out of the blackout zone. A madcap road trip chronicle by turns tender and hilarious, fueled by a low-simmering political rage, Happy Bad is a rocket arrived on Earth from a remarkable new voice in fiction. National bestselling author Julia Phillips (Bear and Disappearing Earth) joins Nolan for a discussion on the book, before an audience Q&A and signing.

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