Wednesday, August 21, 2024 from 06:00pm to 07:30pm
Subterranean Books
6271 Delmar Boulevard
Live @ Subterranean Books: Rebecca Anne Nguyen
Join award-winning Midwest author Rebecca Anne Nguyen for the St. Louis launch of her debut novel, The 23rd Hero, winner of the 2024 Readers' Choice Award for Best Adult Novel (Bronze). Rebecca will read from her novel, a dystopian time travel adventure love story, followed by an author Q and A and book signing. Champagne and cake! FREE EVENT - RSVPs recommended.
About the author
Rebecca Anne Nguyen (she/her/hers) is a Milwaukee-based writer, playwright, and co-author of the award-winning memoir, Where War Ends. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Insider, Slackjaw, Defenestration, Wintermute Lit, and Military Times, among others. The 23rd Hero is her first novel.
About the book
On the verge of being forced to live in an underground bunker due to climate crisis, an ordinary woman with an extraordinary memory is recruited for a time travel program to stop environmental disasters before they happen. But when she falls in love with the program's mysterious founder, she must learn to believe in herself and her abilities before she's sent to sixteenth century France with no way to save the world or return to the man she loves.
About the bookstore
"We opened in October 2000 and then moved down the street and expanded in March 2021. We focus on independent book store best sellers, small presses, timeless fiction and timely non-fiction, as well as anything else that catches our fancy. Our big categories are fiction, essays, poetry, music, science, nature, history, children’s, cultural studies, memoirs... Our smaller (but no less important) areas include graphic novels, film, cookbooks, travel, and more. We also stock journals, t-shirts, cards, pins, tote bags, and whatever else we think you might like. One thing you will not find are used books (despite what the internet may have told you). We still field calls on that account about every day, even though we phased out that segment sometime around 2004. There are other stores in town, though, that have fantastic assortments of used books.
The entire staff has input on what we stock, so the store is always evolving and improving. We listen to our customers, as well, eavesdropping on what books they're talking about. We listen to the radio, read newspapers, magazines, the web-- we're always looking for tips on what’s out there and what our customers might like.
We're woman-owned with a tiny staff of 7. We're all avid readers and are always excited to make recommendations or talk about what you just read -- that you just hated or that you think absolutely everyone should read -- and take it as a personal affront if we’re not able to figure out what that book was that you heard about on NPR two weeks ago that had something about family and Africa in the title. Seriously. We LOVE those challenges."
