Twin Cities Book Festival

In addition to our blockbuster big day on October 19, this year’s TCBF will include select community events in the weeks before and after. Extend your festival fun!

Rain Taxi kicks off the 2024 TCBF season with a two-night doubleheader at Magers & Quinn Booksellers—join us for either or both!  We’ve got a pretty good rep for recommending first books that stand out, and we heartily endorse these new novels launching in September. For both events, we’ve lined up a Minnesota author who already had a debut that wowed us to serve as a conversation partner for our featured guest. Also, we’ll have refreshments on hand to kick off your literary season in style. See you there!

Alejandro Puyana
In conversation with Nigar Alam

Hailed by Luis Alberto Urrea as “a tour de force” from “the new master”, Freedom Is A Feast (Little, Brown and Co.) is a Latin American saga of love and revolution in which a rebel who commits a youthful betrayal receives a late-life chance at redemption and a new life. Alejandro Puyana, who came to the United States from Venezuela at the age of twenty-six, received his MFA from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, and resides in Austin, Texas with his wife and daughter. He will be in conversation with Nigar Alam, author of Under the Tamarind Tree (Putnam, 2023), a generation-spanning epic which was longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Book Prize.

Free event! To register and get more info, click here