Meg Richman presents 'Freya the Deer'

Third Place Books welcomes author and screenwriter Meg Richman to our Lake Forest Park store for a conversation about her new book — the story of a singular young woman contemplating the metaphysical in the shadow of growing political unrest.

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Raised by absent-minded professors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Freya is a young neurodivergent woman occupied since childhood by a series of obsessions. She is artistic, vegan, unsocial, and utterly honest. She attends college in the Pacific Northwest, planning to create her own major so she can explore exactly what the soul is. There she falls in love with handsome Caleb, who becomes her new obsession. When Caleb becomes increasingly radicalized after the hideous M**der of George Floyd, she must choose between her intense loyalty to him and her moral doubts about violent protest. 

From screenwriter Meg Richman comes a quirky, lyrical debut coming-of-age tale about a complex character curious about the numinous yet tied to a physical world that’s steeped in political upheaval.

Meg Richman, a native of Seattle, worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood for ten years. She wrote the original treatment for Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride, a draft of Up at the Villa for Sydney Pollack’s company and the pilot for Aaron Spelling’s series Malibu Shores. The film she wrote and directed, Under Heaven, was a jury selection at the Sundance Film Festival and a nominee for an Independent Spirit Award for Joely Richardson’s performance. Motherhood brought her home to the Pacific Northwest where she became a teacher for thirteen years, first at Interagency Academy and then at Franklin High School. She currently writes fiction and has stories published in Louisiana Literature, Isele Magazine, and Judith Magazine. Freya the Deer is her debut novel. She lives with her son Jesse and oversized dog Gidon in Hillman City.

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