Storyhouse Bookpub presents The Author Afterparty with Kelly Barnhill and Antonia Angress on Friday, November 4 at 7pm in Raygun’s mezzanine.
Newbery medalist Kelly Barnhill and debut novelist Antonia Angress team up to take Des Moines by a storm of feminist prowess with their new releases When Women Were Dragons and Sirens & Muses. Plan to mingle with the authors in Daisy Chain while savoring treats from local baker, Bay Laurel Baking Co. Then, both authors will read from and discuss their novels and chat with us about their work and process before signing books.
Read the books ahead of time for extra credit + fun discussion (though it’s not required to have a great time!) ;) Books are currently available for purchase at Storyhouse and will be available at the event as well.
$6 tickets - enjoy food/drink - purchase online (encouraged!), at the shop, or at the door as long as space allows. Share this event with your book friends! It’s a great way to meet new readers or have a night out with your book club.
ABOUT WHEN WOMEN WERE DRAGONS:
A rollicking feminist tale set in 1950s America where thousands of women have spontaneously transformed into dragons, exploding notions of a woman’s place in the world and expanding minds about accepting others for who they really are. This is her first adult novel, soon to be followed by The Crane Husband in February 2023.
“Completely fierce, unmistakably feminist, and subversively funny, When Women Were Dragons brings the heat to misogyny with glorious imagination and talon-sharp prose. Check the skies tonight—you might just see your mother.”
—Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in Chemistry
ABOUT KELLY BARNHILL:
Kelly Barnhill is the author of the adult novel When Women Were Dragons and several middle grade novels, including the New York Times bestselling novels The Girl Who Drank the Moon, winner of the 2017 John Newbery Medal, and The Ogress and the Orphans. She is also the recipient of the World Fantasy Award, and has been a finalist for the SFWA Andre Norton Nebula Award and the PEN America Literary Award. She lives in Minneapolis with her family.
ABOUT SIRENS & MUSES:
Four artists are drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art school and on the streets of New York in this magnificent debut for fans of Writers & Lovers and The Goldfinch.
“The characters in Sirens & Muses wake up each day and choose chaos. . . . a tumultuous queer love triangle. . . . Angress’s strength is her ability to create an engrossing plot, allowing readers to watch as her messy characters navigate their way to the finish line.”—New York Times Book Review
ABOUT ANTONIA ANGRESS:
Antonia Angress was born in Los Angeles and raised in San José, Costa Rica. She is a graduate of Brown University and the University of Minnesota MFA program, where she was a Winifred Fiction Fellow and a College of Liberal Arts Fellow. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband. Sirens & Muses is her first novel.