May Book Club

Name: May Book Club
Start: 2024-05-29T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-05-29T21:00:00-04:00
Location: So & So Books

Schedule

Wed May 29 2024 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

So & So Books | Raleigh, NC

For the May book club, we'll be reading Jac Jemc's Empty Theatre.
A wildly over-the-top social satire reimagining the mad misadventures of the iconic royal cousins King Ludwig and Empress Sisi, from the incomparable Jac Jemc.
A tragicomic tour de force, Empty Theatre immerses readers in Ludwig and Sisi’s rarefied, ridiculous, restrictive world—where the aesthetics of excess belie the isolation of its inhabitants. With wit, pathos, and imagination, Jac Jemc takes us on an unforgettable journey through two extraordinary parallel lives and the complex, tenuous friendship that links them.
Jac Jemc is the author of False Bingo, The Grip of It, My Only Wife, and A Different Bed Every Time. My Only Wife was a finalist for the 2013 PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction and winner of the Paula Anderson Book Award, and her story collection False Bingo won the Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, was a Lambda Award finalist, and was long-listed for the Story Prize. Jemc currently teaches creative writing at the University of California San Diego.
Empty Theatre will be 25% off through May!!! Join us at the shop on May 29 at 7pm for beer, wine, snacks, and book discussion.