Sadie Hoagland | Circle of Animals

Join TKE for an event with local author Sadie Hoagland, who will discuss and sign her new book: Circle of Animals. This in-person event is open to the public and will take place at the bookshop.

Registration is required for this free event. Reserve your spot on Eventbrite here.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. You may also pre-order your signed copy of Circle of Animals to pick up at the event by either calling the store at 801-484-9100 or ordering online. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of Circle of Animals may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized. Places in the signing line are reserved for those who purchase a copy from The King's English.

About the book:

When her hippie mother Edi goes missing the same week Sky Richard is assaulted at work—Sky wants to run away from everything. Instead, Sky goes looking for her mother and finds an estranged grandmother, the cult she was born in, and an unlikely ally. But the most important thing she discovers in her mother’s past is the strength she needs to face her own life.

Circle of Animals tells the story of a woman, Sky, grappling with a sexual assault in her workplace and the disappearance of her troubled “hippie” mother the same week. As she searches for and uncovers her mother’s story, she also discovers the larger story of the historically situated and gendered bodies of her mother and estranged grandmother. Drawing on ancient myth (the title refers to the zodiac), California counterculture of the last century, and current conversations about sexual violence, this novel asks us to think about how the inability to communicate violence done unto the body is not just a symptom but also a means through which violence spreads collaterally between women as silence and estrangement. As Sky looks for her mother, she must also find her own voice and courage to claim her agency.

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