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Please join us Wednesday, October 30th at 7pm for Alibi Bookshop's October Book Club pick, "The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires" by Grady Hendrix. (NOTE, THIS IS ON WEDNESDAY SO THAT IT DOESN'T CONFLICT WITH HALLOWEEN.)Let's have some fun and read something a little scary, a little thought provoking... And a lot hilarious!
NYT Bestseller
2021 Locus Award Finalist
A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist
#1 April 2020 LibraryReads Pick
April 2020 Indie Next Pick
A Library Journal Editors' Pick
The A.V. Club Best Book
A POPSUGAR Best Book for Book Clubs
One of Good Housekeeping's 30 of the Scariest Horror Books Ever Written
One of Town & Country's 50 Best Horror Books
"This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good."--Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl
"Ghosts of the past have also inspired one of the most rollicking, addictive novels I've read in years: The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, a tale of housewives battling vampires that is sweetly painful, like hard candy that breaks a tooth."--Danielle Trussoni for The New York Times Book Review
"A delight...its incisive social commentary and meaningful character development make The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires not just a palatable read for non-horror fans, but a winning one."--US A Today
Patricia Campbell's life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she's always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they're as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families.
One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn't felt in years. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind--and Patricia has already invited him in.
Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia's life and try to take everything she took for granted--including the book club--but she won't surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.
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Alibi Bookshop - Vallejo, CA, 624 Marin St,Vallejo,CA,United States
