J. R. Dawson | The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World | Reading, Q&A, and Signing!

Name: J. R. Dawson | The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World | Reading, Q&A, and Signing!
Start: 2025-10-11T11:00:00-05:00
Location: T-Bock's Upstairs/Underground

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 11:00 am

UTC-05:00

Location

T-Bock's Upstairs/Underground | Decorah, IA

Who: J. R. Dawson
What: a morning celebrating their new novel, The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World
Where: T-Bock's Underground
When: Saturday, 10/11at 11:00am
Minnesota author J. R. Dawson will give an author presentation and Q&A session followed by a book signing on Saturday, October 11 at 11am at T-Bock's Underground at 206 W Water St. Everyone is invited to this free event sponsored by the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation, with support from T-Bock's and Dragonfly Books.
The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World is a powerful and poignant contemporary Queer fantasy perfect for fans of Hadestown and Under the Whispering Door.
At the edge of Chicago, nestled on the shores of Lake Michigan, there is a waystation for the dead. Every night, the newly-departed travel through the city to the Station, guided by its lighthouse. There, they reckon with their lives, before stepping aboard a boat to go beyond. Nera has spent decades watching her father—the ferryman of the dead—sail across the lake, each night just like the last. But tonight, something is wrong. The Station's lighthouse has started to flicker out. The terrifying, ghostly Haunts have multiplied in the city. And now a person—a living person—has found her way onto the boat. Her name is Charlie. She followed a song. And she is searching for someone she lost.
Dawson's debut, The First Bright Thing, is a Golden Crown award winner. Her shorter works are in places such as F&SF, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018, and Lightspeed. Dawson lives on Dakota land in Minnesota with a loving spouse and three dogs. She is a professor at Drexel University's MFA program. Her second novel, The Lighthouse at the Edge of the World, is a loose sapphic retelling of Orpheus, and releases from Tor in July 2025.
This event is part of Dragonfly Books and the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation’s robust author event series, which brings top-notch writers of all genres to Northeast Iowa to lead in conversations about literature and writing. To learn more about this event and other events with Dragonfly Books, visit www.dragonflybooks.com.
If you find that you can't make it to the event but would still like to purchase any books from this author talk, give Dragonfly Books a call at 563-382-4275. Our staff will be glad to reserve a book, have it autographed for you, and shipped out as needed.