Emily Jane with Carrie Vaughn Live at Tattered Cover Colfax
About this Event
Join us for a fun conversation with bestselling authors Emily Jane and Carrie Vaughn on Wednesday, September 9th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location for a great conversation about Jane's new novel: Mr. Yay!
Registration includes the following options:
- A signed Paperback copy of the book … OR
- A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store
This event includes an opportunity to meet the author, participate in an audience Q&A after the presentation, and get your book signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome!
We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book.
If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Part speculative adventure, part suburban mystery, totally hilarious and delightful. Rappers, dogs, detectives, children’s shows—and second chances to embrace your true self.
Enter the Branches multiverse of Emily Jane, the Queen of Quirk and USA Today bestselling author of On Earth as It Is on Television.
Budding musician Fatty Bratty wakes up in his terrible Ohio apartment to a random dog. A dog that acts like he belongs there. Except Bratty doesn’t own a dog. He always wanted to but never did. So maybe this random dog is a sign: screw his parents’ expectations. Forget business school. Goodbye, Midwest. Hello Los Angeles. Over a manic week, Bratty and his best friend write and record their first rap album. They call themselves Mr. Yay.
Bratty’s therapist, Miriam, remembers a different Mr. Yay, the one from the old children’s TV show, the washed-up actor turned first mate who sailed a boat captained by a dog and taught people to be themselves. To just be. But strangely, her husband, Jack, has no memory of the old show at all.
As Mr. Yay headlines Vegas shows and climbs the charts with his rap songs, Miriam watches her life unravel. Jack is increasingly absent, more secretive, reckless—he hardly resembles the man she married. Their friends start acting weird, too: drinking excessively, splurging on motorcycles, quitting their jobs, not washing their hair, harboring raccoons. Jack also doesn’t remember things he should about his relationship with Miriam. But he suspects his memory hole is more than it seems. It’s not just that he’s forgotten the Mr. Yay show—it’s that, on the internet, and according to the studio and half the population, there is no Mr. Yay. There never was.
Witty, heartfelt, deeply weird, and utterly original, Mr. Yay explores how we grapple with inexplicable sudden shifts in the world around us and how to live when the past is different than what you remember.
(And don’t forget to check out the other books in the Branches multiverse, including Here Beside the Rising Tide, American Werewolves, and Give the People What They Want; or, How Our Dad Caused the Funpocalypse.)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emily Jane is the USA Today bestselling author of On Earth as it Is on Television, Here Beside the Rising Tide, and American Werewolves. She grew up in Boise, Boulder, and San Francisco. She earned her BA in psychology from the University of San Francisco and her JD from UC Law San Francisco. She lives on an urban farm in Cincinnati with her husband, Steve; their two children; their cats, Scully and Ripley; and their husky, Nymeria.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Carrie Vaughn's work includes the Philip K. Dick Award winning novel Bannerless, the New York Times Bestselling Kitty Norville urban fantasy series, over twenty novels and upwards of 150 short stories, two of which have been finalists for the Hugo Award. Her latest novels are historical fantasies, The Naturalist Society and The Glass Slide World, about 19th century ornithologists and the magic of binomial nomenclature. An Air Force brat, she survived her nomadic childhood and managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Visit her at www.carrievaughn.com
Where is it happening?
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