NATE POWELL BOOK RELEASE PARTY – SWALLOW ME WHOLE

On Saturday October 25th, Nate Powell will be visiting as part of his new book tour for SWALLOW ME WHOLE, coming from Top Shelf in November. We’ll have advance copies of SWALLOW ME WHOLE, which is already receiving high praise.

LISTING INFORMATION:
WHO: Nate Powell
WHAT: SWALLOW ME WHOLE book release and slide show reading
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 25th, 7-9PM

BIO INFORMATION:

NATE POWELL – Powell is a 30-year-old Bloomington, Ind. vegan who operates a punk-record label and works full time with adults with developmental disabilities.

His most ambitious book to date, Swallow Me Whole is a love story carried by rolling fog, terminal illness, hallucination, apophenia, insect armies, secrets held, unshakeable faith, and the search for a master pattern to make sense of one’s unraveling. Nate Powell quietly explores the dark corners of adolescence — not the clichéd melodramatic outbursts of rebellion, but the countless tiny moments of madness, the vague relief of medication, and mixed blessing of family ties. As the story unfolds, two stepsiblings hold together amidst schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, family breakdown, animal telepathy, misguided love, and the tiniest hope that everything will someday make sense.

Deliberately paced, delicately drawn, and drenched in shadows, Swallow Me Whole is a landmark achievement for Nate Powell and a suburban ghost story that will haunt readers long after its final pages.

http://www.topshelfcomix.com/catalog.php?type=30&title=567

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