BookPeople Presents: Dan Solomon - The Fight for Midnight

Please welcome Dan Solomon and Jessica W. Luther to celebrate The Fight For Midnight!

This event is free and open to the public.

• Start time: 6:00 P.M.
• Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a signing line.
• Location: The second floor of BookPeople.

The author will be signing and personalizing copies of the book after the speaking portion of the event.

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About the book:

Like many teenage boys, Alex Collins views abortion as something he

doesn’t need to have an opinion about – until the political gets personal. It’s been a rough year for Alex. In the past twelve months, he’s lost his best friend, become the target of the two biggest bullies at school, and been

sentenced to community service.

On June 25, 2013, he gets a call for help from Cassie Ramirez, the prettiest girl in school. Finally, he feels like his luck might be changing. Cassie is at the Texas State Capitol to protest Wendy Davis’s filibuster and take a pro-

life stand – and she’s rallying everyone she knows to join her.

Until that moment, Alex didn’t know what a filibuster was, and he’d never given a moment’s thought to how he felt about abortion. But at the Capitol, he finds himself in the middle of a tense scene full of pro-life “blue shirts,” pro-choice “orange shirts,” and blustering politicians playing political games as Wendy Davis tries to run the clock to midnight to defeat the restrictive law.

Alex may have entered the Capitol looking to spend time with Cassie, but when he runs into his ex-friend Shireen in an orange t-shirt, he quickly realizes that when it comes to an issue like abortion, neutral isn’t an option. Over the next nineteen hours, Alex will struggle to figure out what side he’s on, knowing that whatever choice he makes will bring him face-to-face with his past mistakes.

About the author:

Dan Solomon is a journalist based out of Austin, Texas. He’s a senior writer at Texas Monthly, and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Details. He covered the HB2 filibuster for the Austin Chronicle, where his work was part of the alt-weekly’s AAN Award–nominated coverage.

About the moderator:

Jessica W. Luther is an investigative journalist living in Austin, Texas. She is the author of two books, the latest being Loving Sports When They Don’t Love You Back: Dilemmas of the Modern Sports Fan (co-authored with Kavitha Davidson and published by University of Texas Press in September 2020). She spent the summer of 2013 protesting anti-abortion bills at the capitol in Austin and was there the night of Senator Davis' filibuster.

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