Ryan Burruss Live at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove

An electrifying new novel for readers of Joe Hill and Stephen King

We are excited to celebrate local author Ryan Burruss' debut horror novel at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove on Tuesday, October 6th at 5:30 PM!

Registration includes the following options:

• A signed Hardcover copy of the book … OR

• A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store

We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book.

This event includes an opportunity to meet the author, participate in an audience Q&A after the book talk, and get your book(s) signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome!

If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Beneath a hopeful new suburb carved from the echoes of war, an old hunger stirs, awakened by an itinerant stranger whose gifts reveal what the town has tried to bury: The past is not done feeding

It’s 1952, and a dark force gathers in the nearly completed subdivision of Brookshire, Maryland, a place meant to promise safety and security for those ready to establish roots after the chaos and sacrifice of World War II. This maleficent thrum feeds off the trauma and quiet rage dwelling in those veterans who have returned home to claim their piece of the American Dream—the quarter-acre lot, the pretty wife, the docile children.

That promise begins to waver when a cryptic bookbinder arrives in town, leaving handmade books in trees and mailboxes that speak to the secrets tucked behind storm doors and chain-link fences. His bond with an equally misunderstood young girl reveals further mysteries tying this stranger’s own history to Brookshire’s fate, as a makeshift tribe readies for battle against the evil growing in their town.

A debut novel about secrets, community, and the insatiable amoral emptiness that is the true embodiment of war, American Crow tells a thrilling, page-turning story set against the darkest echoes of humanity.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

RYAN BURRUSS has enjoyed fiction bylines in Prairie Schooner, The Carolina Quarterly, Whiskey Island Magazine, and New Orleans Review, among many others. A native of the East Coast, Ryan now resides on Colorado’s Front Range. He is a participating member of the Lighthouse Writers Workshop.