Gabrielle Korn "The Shutouts" in conv. w/Michelle Bowdler "Is Rape a Crime?

East End Books Boston Seaport presents: Gabrielle Korn "The Shutouts" in conversation with Michelle Bowdler "Is Rape a Crime? A Memoir, and Investigation and a Manifesto"

"A brilliant queer dystopian novel from the author of Yours for the Taking, following a cast of characters on the margins of a strange and exclusive new society. The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are pummeling the country while political tensions are rising. But Kelly's on the road anyway; she desperately needs to get back to her daughter, who she left seven years ago for a cause that she's no longer sure she believes in. Almost 40 years later, another mother, Ava, and her daughter Brook are on the run as well, from the climate change relief program known as The Inside Project, where they've spent the past 22 years being treated as lab rats. When they encounter a woman from Ava's past on the side of the highway, the three continue on in a journey that will take them into the depths of what remains of humanity out in the wilderness. At the same time, way up North, weather conditions continue to worsen and a settlement departs in search of greener pastures, leaving behind only two members, drawn together by a circumstance and a mystery they are destined to unravel together. Set in the world of Gabrielle Korn's Yours for the Taking, The Shutouts tells the captivating story of those who have been shut out from Inside, their fight to survive, and an interconnectedness larger than all of them"--

GABRIELLE KORN is the author of Yours for the Taking and Everybody (Else) Is Perfect, and the former Editor-in-Chief of Nylon. Her writing has been published across the internet since 2011, with bylines in Literary Hub , Instyle, Domino, Oprah, Refinery29 and more. Originally from New York, she now lives in Los Angeles with her wife, and together they run The Pink Door artist and writer residency.

Michelle Bowdler is the Executive Director of Health & Wellness at Tufts University and, after graduating from the Harvard School of Public Health, has worked on social justice issues related to rape for over a decade. Is Rape a Crime? is her first book. She is a recipient of a 2017 Barbara Deming Memorial Award and has been a Fellow at Ragdale and the MacDowell Colony. Michelle's writing has been published in the New York Times and her essays "Eventually You Tell Your Kids" and "Babelogue" were nominated for Pushcart Prizes.

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