Meet TJ KLUNE and Celebrate Release of In the Lives of Puppets with Left Bank Books, April 26 @7PM!
Schedule
Wed, 26 Apr, 2023 at 07:00 pm
Location
Ethical Society of St. Louis | Clayton, MO
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Left Bank Books welcomes bestselling & award-winning authorTJ Klune to discuss his highly anticipated "epic quest of rescue and discovery" In the Lives of Puppets at Ethical Society of St. Louis on April 26th at 7pm! TJ Klune will be in conversation with Left Bank Books' Danielle King!
Tickets are on sale now for Admit One, Admit Two, or Virtual (each ticket includes 1 book). Order copies of In the Lives of Puppets from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!
Klune will personalize and sign copies for sale from Left Bank Books.
If you are unable to make it in person, leave a personalization note in your order.
**About the Auhor**
TJ KLUNE is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of The House in the Cerulean Sea, The Extraordinaries, and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important--now more than ever--to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.
**About the Book**
New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts.
Most Anticipated from BookPage - Goodreads - The Nerd Daily - Paste Magazine - LitReactor - OverDrive - LGBTQ Reads - Tor.com - more
In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots--fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. Victor Lawson, a human, lives there too. They're a family, hidden and safe.
The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled "HAP," he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio-a past spent hunting humans.
When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio's former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. Gio is captured and taken back to his old laboratory in the City of Electric Dreams. So together, the rest of Vic's assembled family must journey across an unforgiving and otherworldly country to rescue Gio from decommission, or worse, reprogramming.
Along the way to save Gio, amid conflicted feelings of betrayal and affection for Hap, Vic must decide for himself: Can he accept love with strings attached?
Inspired by Carlo Collodi's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and like Swiss Family Robinson meets Wall-E, In the Lives of Puppets is a masterful stand-alone fantasy adventure from the beloved author who brought you The House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door.
★ "An epic quest of rescue and discovery [with] the author's trademark charm, heart, and bittersweetness." -- Library Journal, starred review
"An enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times." --P. Djèlí Clark
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Where is it happening?
Ethical Society of St. Louis, 9001 Clayton Rd,St. Louis,MO,United States, ClaytonEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
