About this Event
Join us to celebrate the release of THE SHUTOUTS from author Gabrielle Korn! Gabrielle will be in conversation with Celia Laskey for this special night of reading, signing, and Q&A.
ABOUT THE SHUTOUTS
A brilliant queer dystopian novel from the author of Yours for the Taking, following a cast of characters on the margins of a strange and exclusive new society.
The year is 2041, and it's a dangerous time to be a woman driving across the United States alone. Deadly storms and uncontrollable wildfires are pummeling the country while political tensions are rising. But Kelly's on the road anyway; she desperately needs to get back to her daughter, who she left seven years ago for a cause that she's no longer sure she believes in.
Almost 40 years later, another mother, Ava, and her daughter Brook are on the run as well, from the climate change relief program known as The Inside Project, where they've spent the past 22 years being treated as lab rats. When they encounter a woman from Ava’s past on the side of the highway, the three continue on in a journey that will take them into the depths of what remains of humanity out in the wilderness.
At the same time, way up North, weather conditions continue to worsen and a settlement departs in search of greener pastures, leaving behind only two members, drawn together by a circumstance and a mystery they are destined to unravel together.
Set in the world of Gabrielle Korn's Yours for the Taking, The Shutouts tells the captivating story of those who have been shut out from Inside, their fight to survive, and an interconnectedness larger than all of them.
ABOUT GABRIELLE KORN
Gabrielle Korn is the author of three books and the former editor-in-chief of Nylon Media. Her debut novel, Yours for the Taking, was an Indie Next pick and a New York Times best book of December. Its sequel, The Shutouts, out December 3, 2024 from St. Martin's Press, has been called "another winner" by Publishers Weekly and "a perfect blend of sadness and hope" by Kirkus. Her writing has appeared across the internet since 2011, with bylines in McSweeney's, The Millions, Literary Hub, InStyle, Refinery29, Oprah Magazine, and more, as well as in the recent anthology Sluts, edited by Michelle Tea. Originally from New York, she now lives in LA with her wife where together they run the Pink Door Residency for artists and writers.
ABOUT CELIA LASKEY
Celia Laskey is the author of Cover Story (available March 25, 2025), So Happy for You, and Under the Rainbow, a finalist for the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Her other work has appeared in Catapult, Guernica, The Minnesota Review, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from the University of New Mexico and currently lives in Los Angeles with her dog Whiskey.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
18604 Ventura Blvd, 18604 Ventura Boulevard, Los Angeles, United States
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