Sacrificial Animals Paperback Launch with Kailee Pedersen

Name: Sacrificial Animals Paperback Launch with Kailee Pedersen
Start: 2025-08-28T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 1307 E Cary St, Richmond, VA 23219-4117, United States

Schedule

Thu, 28 Aug, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1307 E Cary St, Richmond, VA 23219-4117, United States | Richmond, VA

This one is extra special! Kailee's book has been a staff pick since it came out, and she will be talking with Charlie in their interview debut at the store!
About the Book:
Inspired by Kailee Pedersen's own journey being adopted from Nanning, China in 1996 and growing up alongside her family's farm in Nebraska, this rich and atmospheric supernatural horror debut explores an ancient Chinese mythology.
The last thing Nick Morrow expected to receive was an invitation from his father to return home. When he left rural Nebraska behind, he believed he was leaving everything there, including his abusive father, Carlyle, and the farm that loomed so large in memory, forever.
But neither Nick nor his brother Joshua, disowned for marrying Emilia, a woman of Asian descent, can ignore such summons from their father, who hopes for a deathbed reconciliation. Predictably, Joshua and Carlyle quickly warm to each other while Nick and Emilia are left to their own devices. Nick puts the time to good use and his flirtation with Emilia quickly blooms into romance. Though not long after the affair turns intimate, Nick begins to suspect that Emilia’s interest in him may have sinister, and possibly even ancient, motivations.
Punctuated by scenes from Nick’s adolescent years, when memories of a queer awakening and a shadowy presence stalking the farm altered the trajectory of his life forever, Sacrificial Animals explores the violent legacy of inherited trauma and the total collapse of a family in its wake.
About the Author:
Kailee Pedersen writes haunted, unsettling speculative fiction. She graduated with a B.A. in Classics from Columbia University, specializing in ancient Greek. Kailee was adopted from Nanning in 1996 and grew up in Nebraska, where her family owns a farm. Her writing on LGBTQ+ and Asian American themes was awarded an Artist Fellowship by the Nebraska Arts Council in 2015. When not scribbling down her next book, you can catch her singing opera, playing video games, or working as a software engineer in New York City. Sacrificial Animals is her first novel. Visit her website at kaileepedersen.com.
Charlie Marks came to Richmond for university and never left. After an education in English, they bounced around jobs, both meaningful and mind-numbing, before landing at Fountain. They enjoy literary fiction, sci-fi/fantasy, history, and horror, with a proclivity for anything that makes one's skin crawl or head hurt. Aside from reading, they enjoy Dungeons and Dragons, doom metal, cooking, and collage.