Please join us in person on Friday, June 20th at 7:00pm central to help celebrate Ivy Pochoda's new novel, Ecstasy. Ivy will be in conversation with Exile MVP Gus Moreno!
AboutEcstasy:
Lena wants her life back. Her wealthy, controlling, humorless husband has just died, and now she contends with her controlling, humorless son, Drew. Lena lands in Naxos with her best friend in tow for the unveiling of her son's, pet project--the luxurious Agape Villas.
Years of marriage amongst the wealthy elite has whittled Lena's spirit into rope and sinew, smothered by tasteful cocktail dresses and unending small talk. On Naxos she yearns to rediscover her true nature, remember the exuberant dancer and party girl she once was, but Drew tightens his grip, keeping her cloistered inside the hotel, demanding that she fall in line.
Lena is intrigued by a group of women living in tents on the beach in front of the Agape. She can feel their drums at night, hear their seductive leader calling her to dance. Soon she'll find that an ancient God stirs on the beach, awakening dark desires of women across the island. The only questions left will be whether Lena will join them, and what it will cost her.
Ecstasy is a riveting, darkly poetic, one-sitting read about empowerment, desire, and what happens when women reject the roles set out for them.
About the authors:
Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These Women, and Sing Her Down which won the LA Times Book Prize. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France, and has been a finalist for the the Edgar Award, among other awards. For many years, Ivy has led a creative writing workshop in Skid Row Los Angeles where she helped found Skid Row Zine. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles.
Gus Moreno is the author of This Thing Between Us, a  Best Book of 2021  pick by NPR and the New York Public Library. He's also the co-creator of When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee, a comic book series published by Boom! Studios. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and chihuahua, but never think that he's not from Chicago.
About this event:
This is a free, in person event and registration is required. Please click on the registration link below.Ivy and and Gus will be happy to sign and personalize copies of their books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available after the event and we ship nationally.

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