R.F. Kuang Live with Tattered Cover Book Store

Join us for an amazing conversation with R. F. Kuang and Tattered Cover Book Store as we celebrate her newest book: Katabasis on September 2nd at 6:00 pm at Trinity United Methodist Church!

Registration includes the following options:

• a signed copy of the Deluxe Limited Edition of Katabasis,
• admission to the event space and signing line,

• an opportunity for photos with R.F. Kuang (Tattered Cover staff will take photos for attendees. These are candid photos while she is signing, not posed photos with the author.),
• an opportunity for R.F. Kuang to sign and personalize (name only) ONE copy of ONE of her books.

We will have additional books for guests to purchase at the event!

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

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION features stenciled edges, case effects, and illustrated endpapers.

Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek:

The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world.

That is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams….

Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the very same conclusion.

With nothing but the tales of Orpheus and Dante to guide them, enough chalk to draw the Pentagrams necessary for their spells, and the burning desire to make all the academic trauma mean anything, they set off across Hell to save a man they don’t even like.

But Hell is not like the storybooks say, Magick isn’t always the answer, and there’s something in Alice and Peter’s past that could forge them into the perfect allies…or lead to their doom.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
R.F. Kuang is the #1 New York Times and #1 Sunday Times bestselling author of the Poppy War trilogy, Babel: An Arcane History, and Yellowface. Her work has won the Nebula, Locus, Crawford, and British Book Awards. A Marshall Scholar, she has an MPhil in Chinese Studies from Cambridge and an MSc in Contemporary Chinese Studies from Oxford. She is now pursuing a PhD in East Asian Languages and Literatures at Yale, where she studies diaspora, contemporary Sinophone literature, and Asian American literature.