Ross McMeekin presents 'Pepperleaf'

Third Place Books welcomes local author Ross McMeekin to our Lake Forest Park store to celebrate his new book Pepperleaf: a novel following five Seattle-area suburbanites as they grapple with major life changes. In these familiar neighbors and their stories, he locates humanity, humor, tenderness, depth, and meaning.

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From the author of Below the Falls, Ross McMeekin’s novel, Pepperleaf, explores a year in the life of five Pacific Northwest suburbanites whose worlds weave together through fraught circumstances such as a failing marriage, an unplanned pregnancy, a religious bereavement, and a father of two’s cancer diagnosis. Embodying the spirits of Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, and Elizabeth Strout’s fictional town of Crosby, Maine, McMeekin’s suburb of Pepperleaf is home to dozens of idiosyncratic characters who illuminate a piece of overlooked America. In spare, polished prose and delivered with wry, deadpan humor, Pepperleaf mines the quirks and unmet desires of a ‘burb between the big city and the trees, written to find its earnestness, depth, and meaning.

Ross McMeekin is author of the novel Pepperleaf (Thirty West, 2026), as well as a story collection, Below the Falls (Thirty West, 2024), and the neo-noir novel The Hummingbirds (Skyhorse, 2018). His short fiction has appeared in literary journals and magazines such as Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House's Open Bar, Vol. 1 Brooklyn,Shenandoah, Redivider, and X-R-A-Y. He served as editor of the minimalist literary journal Spartan for over a decade. He studied fiction at Vermont College of Fine Arts, earning a Master’s, and holds a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Washington. He’s won year-long writing fellowships from Jack Straw Cultural Center and Hugo House in Seattle. He lives in Lake Forest Park, WA.

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