BookPeople Presents: Mary H.K. Choi - Pool House

Please welcome Mary H.K. Choi and Shea Serrano to celebrate Pool House!

This event is free and open to the public.

• Start time: 7:00 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.

• To get a book signed, a copy of the event book or an item of equal value must be purchased from BookPeople.
• For high volume events, post-talk signing lines can become very long. For such events, we recommend arriving and checking in to the event early as that will get you into an earlier signing group.

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About the book:

Bestselling young adult author Mary H.K. Choi debuts a brilliantly observed adult novel about mothers, daughters and the complexity of family set against the backdrop of Hollywood

Stevie cannot escape her mother. Abandoning college plans to work a dead-end job, her days are a purgatorial bore. Many dream of moving to L.A. and into the spotlight, but Stevie can’t wait to move away from it, and her mother’s orbit, to start over.

Moon is many things: an out-of-work actress, a recovering addict, whatever a mistress becomes when she’s widowed, and a mother. Reeling in the aftermath of her lover and TV husband’s death, Moon struggles to process her grief. And the last thing she expects is for Stevie to leave her too.

Now, neither Stevie nor Moon can afford to quit each other. And their cost of living forces them into a glass-walled pool house in the backyard, while their home is rented out to pay the bills. But when Adam, Moon’s former TV son and Stevie’s forever crush, arrives for the funeral, the three are pulled into a messy orbit, moving back into the ‘Big House’ and play-acting a picture-perfect family even as tensions rise and relationships unravel.

Pool House is a course charted through the wilderness of motherhood, a story about the challenges of navigating class, fame, burgeoning sexuality, and grief as two women grapple with what it means to grow up and grow older in Hollywood.

About the author:

Mary H.K. Choi is the New York Times bestselling author whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, New York, GQ and Elle. Formerly she was the culture correspondent for Vice News on HBO, a columnist at Wired and Allure magazine, a guest columnist for the Townies series at the New York Times Opinion desk, as well as the executive producer of the House of Style documentary on MTV. She was awarded the Katherine Min fellowship at MacDowell and has also written comics for Marvel and DC. She is currently developing her books for film and TV and working on her fourth novel. Follow her on all social media at choitotheworld as well as the choitotheworld substack that covers mental health, culture, and technology.

About the moderator:

Shea Serrano is an author, journalist, and podcaster. He’s the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Rap Year Book, Basketball (And Other Things), Movies (And Other Things), and Hip-Hop (And Other Things). He lives in Texas with his family.

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