BookPeople Presents: Alejandro Nodarse - Blood in the Cut
BookPeople welcomes Alejandro Nodarse in conversation with Gabino Iglesias to celebrate the release of Blood in the Cut.
Date and time
Location
BookPeople
603 North Lamar Boulevard Austin, TX 78703About this event
- 2 hours
Please welcome Alejandro Nodarse and Gabino Iglesias to celebrate Blood in the Cut!
This event is free and open to the public.
- Start time: 7:00 P.M.
- Run time: 45-60 minutes, followed by a signing line.
- Location: The second floor of BookPeople.
The author will be signing and personalizing copies of the book after the speaking portion of the event.
- To get a book signed, a copy of the event book or an item of equal value must be purchased from BookPeople.
Guidelines:
- Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
- There will not be a live stream or recording available.
- BookPeople reserves the right to cancel or postpone this event if necessary.
- If you have any other questions, please visit our Eventbrite FAQ. If your question isn't covered in the FAQ, feel free to email us at online@bookpeople.com.
About the book:
“Blood in The Cut brims with dangerous energy in the face of existential entropy. A fantastic story.”
—S. A. Cosby, New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed
Iggy Guerra is out of prison, but his homecoming is anything but smooth. His beloved mother is gone, his grief-stricken father Armando is deep in debt, and they are about to lose the butcher shop that has been in their family for generations.
Iggy must earn his father’s lost trust in order to save La Carnicería Guerra from the threats imposed by a new rival business, a vigilante activist, and big-game hunter Orin, who has dragged Armando into his dangerous money-making schemes deep in the Everglades, where more than secrets are buried. Iggy will wrestle with the beauty and the danger of the place he calls home as he tries to save his family—without losing himself forever.
Sharp as a butcher knife gleaming in the Miami sun, Alejandro Nodarse's Blood in the Cut opens onto a deeply personal vision of the streets and swamps of Miami, where the roots are crooked but strong as mangroves.
About the author:
Alejandro Nodarse holds an MFA from the University of Miami and is an alum of Las Dos Brujas Writers Conference and a former staff member of the VONA Writers Conference. Blood in the Cut is his debut novel.
About the moderator:
Gabino Iglesias is a writer, editor, journalist, professor, and literary critic living in Austin, TX. He is the author of ZERO SAINTS, COYOTE SONGS, and THE DEVIL TAKES YOU HOME. His work has been nominated twice to the Bram Stoker Award as well as the Locus Award and won the Wonderland Book Award for Best Novel in 2019. His nonfiction has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Electric Literature, and LitReactor. His reviews appear regularly in places like NPR, Publishers Weekly, the Boston Globe, the San Francisco Chronicle, Criminal Element, Mystery Tribune, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and other print and online venues. He teaches creative writing at Southern New Hampshire University's online MFA program and Vermont College of Fine Arts' low-res MFA. You can find him on Twitter at @Gabino_Iglesias.
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Thank you for supporting Alejandro Nodarse, Gabino Iglesias, and your local independent bookstore!
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