What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table?
My most recent prose novel, I Loved You in Another Life, is a coming-of-age love story about the only two people who hear the voice of a mysterious singer, whose lyrics bring their souls together time and again through the ages. My debut novel, Mosquitoland, about one girl’s 1,000-mile voyage on a Greyhound bus to get back to her ailing mother. And my brand new graphic novel, Luminous Beings, about a group of teens who, in an effort to film a documentary about humanity’s recent brush with extinction (via undead squirrels), wind up on a 24-hour wild goose-chase through rowdy nightclubs and druglord castles, dark forests and off-grid RVs, and at every turn, people living quiet lives in a brave new world.
Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book?
Literally anyone! (Though perhaps limited to lovers of fiction.)
Could you please tell us something curious about you and/or your book?
I wrote my first novel while taking care of my newborn son.
Is this your first time participating in Kentucky Book Festival? If yes – what are you looking forward to the most? If you’ve participated before – what was your favorite experience at the Festival?
Kentucky has such a rich literary community — from panels with other authors, to my conversation two years ago with Silas House, this festival always gives me a chance to connect with other author friends, as well as many local readers I rarely get to see.
