Rachel Lyon presents Fruit of the Dead: A Paperback Launch and Reading

P&T Knitwear is please to present a stellar multi-author reading to celebrate the official paperback release of Rachel Lyon's newest novel, (Scribner), featuring Essie Chambers (, Simon & Schuster), Crystal Hana Kim (, William Morrow), Nayantara Roy (, Algonquin), and Lena Valencia (, Tin House).

• This is a ticketed in-store event with limited amphitheater-style seating
• Cost of a $5 general admission ticket can be applied towards your purchase of any book or any product in our café the night of an event.
• We encourage all guests to wear masks.
• The talk will be followed by a book signing. Books signed at P&T Knitwear events must be purchased from P&T Knitwear. If you would like a signed copy and cannot attend the event, we're happy to take your pre-order. We ship most places!

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

is the author of and , a finalist for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Her short stories have appeared in One Story, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and other publications. A teacher of creative writing at various institutions, most recently Bennington College, Rachel lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and two young children.

is an award-winning author and producer. Her bestselling debut novel was a Read With Jenna book club pick, and was longlisted for the 2024 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the Barnes & Noble Book of the Year; it was the winner of the 2024 Barnes & Noble Discover Prize. was named a best book of 2024 by The Washington Post, NPR, and The New Yorker. Essie started her career as a television executive and filmmaker, and was a producer on the Oscar-shortlisted documentary “Descendant,” which was released by the Obamas’ Higher Ground production company and Netflix in 2022. She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

is the author of the critically acclaimed novels (2024), longlisted for the 2025 Joyce Carol Oates Prize and a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award; and (2018), which was named a best book of 2018 by over a dozen publications. Kim is the recipient of the 2022 National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award and the winner of a 2017 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.

is the author of , which was a New York Times Editor’s Choice novel of 2024, an LA Times Editor’s Pick, a Washington Post Best Book, a People Magazine Best Book, an Apple best debut, a Hachette book club pick and a Gold House book club pick amongst others. Her second novel, Sisters of the Halved Heart, is forthcoming from Little Brown in the summer of 2026. In 2018, Roy won the Rick De Marines award for her short story 8C. Her plays have been performed internationally, in the UK and India. She is also a television executive at STARZ where she acquires and develops original scripted series. Roy lives in Silver Lake, Los Angeles.

is the author of the short story collection . Her fiction has appeared in Ninth Letter, BOMB, Epiphany, the anthology , and elsewhere. She is the recipient of a 2019 Elizabeth George Foundation grant and holds an MFA in fiction from The New School. She lives in Brooklyn, where she is the managing editor and director of educational programming at and the co-host of the reading series Ditmas Lit.

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