Book Release: Dear Connie, by Robin Becker (Reading & Conversation)
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Join us for a reading from and conversation about Dear Connie, Robin Becker's new novel. A pop-up exhibition by the cover artist, Samantha Paradise, will also be on display.
"A woman weaponizes the demon that possesses her for financial gain in this smart and sassy excursion into supernatural noir from Becker (Brains: A Zombie Memoir). Its narrator is Kali, a demonic being who has lived inside 28-year-old Connie Burgess since birth. Though Connie pretends to work as a freelance web designer in rural Arkansas, she and her twin brother, Matt, actually make their livings as a hit team for hire, deploying Kali to snuff out victims fingered by their criminal contractors. Since age 13, when her strong emotions led her to accidentally manifest Kali to K*ll her annoying newborn brother, Connie has kept her demon partner firmly under her control. That changes abruptly when Kali decides to assert her own will, refusing to K*ll Connie and Matt’s latest target and making a play for Connie’s boyfriend, T.J. All of Becker’s characters are well drawn, but none more so than Kali, whom she gleefully endows with formidable gumption and spirit that her human collaborators prove ill-equipped to counter. The twisty battle of wills between Connie and Kali will keep readers turning pages until the novel’s gritty end. It’s good, gruesome fun." - Publishers Weekly
7:00 Doors
7:30 Reading
7:45 In Conversation with director Charlie Leftridge
Books will be available to purchase and have signed.
"A woman weaponizes the demon that possesses her for financial gain in this smart and sassy excursion into supernatural noir from Becker (Brains: A Zombie Memoir). Its narrator is Kali, a demonic being who has lived inside 28-year-old Connie Burgess since birth. Though Connie pretends to work as a freelance web designer in rural Arkansas, she and her twin brother, Matt, actually make their livings as a hit team for hire, deploying Kali to snuff out victims fingered by their criminal contractors. Since age 13, when her strong emotions led her to accidentally manifest Kali to K*ll her annoying newborn brother, Connie has kept her demon partner firmly under her control. That changes abruptly when Kali decides to assert her own will, refusing to K*ll Connie and Matt’s latest target and making a play for Connie’s boyfriend, T.J. All of Becker’s characters are well drawn, but none more so than Kali, whom she gleefully endows with formidable gumption and spirit that her human collaborators prove ill-equipped to counter. The twisty battle of wills between Connie and Kali will keep readers turning pages until the novel’s gritty end. It’s good, gruesome fun." - Publishers Weekly
7:00 Doors
7:30 Reading
7:45 In Conversation with director Charlie Leftridge
Books will be available to purchase and have signed.
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Where is it happening?
120 South Broad Street, Mankato, MN, United States, Minnesota 56001
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
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Host or PublisherCarnegie Art Center
