Susan Lee's JULIA SONG IS UNDATEABLE, with Ali Hazelwood and Christina Lauren
Schedule
Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Parkway Theater | Minneapolis, MN
Presented by Tropes & TriflesWednesday, November 5, 2025
6 pm Doors // 7 pm Event
All Ages
All tickets include a *pre-signed* copy of the new book!
$27 ($34.61 w. taxes/fees) Advance General Admission
$32 ($37 w. taxes/fees) At The Door
Ticket purchases are final and non-refundable
Join the Parkway Theater and Tropes & Trifles to celebrate best-selling author Susan Lee's latest adult romance, JULIA SONG IS UNDATEABLE! Susan will be joined in conversation by Ali Hazelwood and Christina Hobbs (of Christina Lauren). Each ticket includes entry into the event and a *pre-signed* copy of Julia Song is Undateable.
Important details! Photo-op and how to preorder pre-signed copies:
An optional photo-op with Susan, Ali, and Christina will follow the conversation. Photo line groups will be assigned in order of check-in at the event. Please note: there will not be a signing line at this event. Photo-op only.
*Pre-signed* copies of all the authors' books will be available for sale at the event. If there is a particular title that you want to be sure to snag, please preorder through the Tropes & Trifles website (here) before October 20, selecting "Event pickup: 11/5 at the Parkway Theater" at checkout. ***All books pre-ordered through Tropes & Trifles will be pre-signed.***
For questions related to ticketing, please contact the Parkway Theater directly. For questions relating to book sales and pre-ordering, please contact Tropes & Trifles at [email protected].
About JULIA SONG IS UNDATEABLE:
CEO seeks dating coach
Julia Song, CEO of Starlight Cosmetics, is at the height of her career. Then why does she feel like such a failure? Maybe because she's thirty and single, with a terrible track record at dating. And in the eyes of her Korean family, that is just unacceptable. It never really bothered her—that is until her beloved grandmother drops the bomb that she is sick and her dying wish is for Julia to get married. Impossible. So in a moment of weakness, Julia asks her family for help. Set her up on three dates to help her find The One. But it will never work—Julia is undateable. If only there was a coach for that….
Tae Kim knows about the weight of familial expectation. He's currently unemployed, living in his parents' basement to care for his ill father. Sure, he's become somewhat of a fix-it man for the Korean community around town, but that's not a real job. And the pressure to get his life together is getting to be too much. So when *the* Julia Song—his childhood crush—asks for his help, it may be just the distraction he needs. He'll do whatever it takes, even coach her for these three dates. Problem is, the more time they spend together and the closer they get, the more Tae wonders if anyone is good enough for Julia...including him.
Exploring the delicate line between unwavering familial love and well-meaning—but claustrophobic—meddling, Susan Lee's adult debut is a beautiful look at the lengths we'll go to for the people we love, the ways we limit ourselves, the sometimes suffocating weight of love, and the joy of human connection.
Susan Lee is a USA Today best-selling author of both young adult and adult romantic comedies. Her work has been featured in national outlets such as Buzzfeed, NPR, People Magazine and Pop Sugar. Kirkus Reviews calls Susan’s voice “honest, fresh and thoughtful.” When she is not writing, Susan can be found down the rabbit holes of her many obsessions including listening to Kpop, binge watching K-dramas, collecting sneakers, building mechanical keyboards, and obsessing over her diva chihuahua, Buttercup.
Ali Hazelwood is the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Love, Theoretically and The Love Hypothesis, as well as a writer of peer-reviewed articles about brain science, in which no one makes out and the ever after is not always happy. Originally from Italy, she lived in Germany and Japan before moving to the US to pursue a PhD in neuroscience. When Ali is not at work, she can be found crocheting, eating cake pops, or watching sci-fi movies with her three feline overlords (and her slightly-less-feline husband).
Christina Hobbs, of Christina Lauren, (but you’ll always hear Lo call her PQ) used to spend her days in a junior high counseling office surrounded by teenagers. These days you can find her at her desk, writing, or watching BTS videos. She lives in Utah with her husband and daughter, thinks she’s the luckiest person in the world to write books with her best friend, and is an unapologetic lover of boy bands and glitter.
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners and best friends Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The #1 international bestselling coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced twenty New York Times bestselling novels. They are published in over 30 languages, have received multiple starred reviews, been inducted into the Library Reads Hall of Fame, named Amazon and Audible Romance of the Year, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and been nominated for several Goodreads Choice Awards. They have been featured in publications such as Forbes, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Time, Entertainment Weekly, People, Today, O Magazine, and more. Their third YA novel, Autoboyography was released in 2017 to critical acclaim, followed by Roomies, Love and Other Words, Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating, The Unhoneymooners, In a Holidaze, The Soulmate Equation, Something Wilder, The True Love Experiment, and The Paradise Problem.
