About this Event
Join Hive Mind Books, Bushwick's queer bookstore and coffee shop, at Boyfriend Co-op for the launch of Work To Do, the debut novel by Hive Mind Books founder Jules Wernersbach.
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Work To Do is a very queer novel that takes place over the course of a single week in Austin, Texas as the staff of a small grocery stores makes a bid to unionize. Jules will read a bit from the book, then talk with New York City booksellers who have successfully formed unions at their stores. After the conversation, Jules will sign books. Books will be available to purchase on site.
Please support Boyfriend Co-op! They are sharing their space with us at no cost. Please buy drinks and food, and tip generously.
Please note that seats are first come, first serve. Standing room will be available once all seats are filled.
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ABOUT WORK TO DO
When Eleanor founded Guadalupe Street Co-op in the early 1980s, she was in her mid-twenties and madly in love with her girlfriend, Meg. Together, they envisioned an idyllic grocery store owned by its workers and customers.
Forty years later, Guadalupe Street Co-op is an iconic Austin business with a loyal customer base, an antiquated business model, and a disgruntled staff. Roz, one of the store’s senior managers, is too caught up stalking her ex-wife online to notice that her girlfriend, Molly, is plotting with her coworkers to unionize. Roz also doesn’t see that Molly is not-so-secretly in a situationship with Randy, the dairy manager leading their collective. Unfolding over the course of a single week during Texas hurricane season,
Work to Do pings between the co-op’s first year and present day, as the unionization bid reaches fever pitch. The wind howls, the power goes out, and water creeps through the front door as questions of who owns the grocery store and who has a right to its future are posed. And will the workers ever be paid enough to buy the organic groceries they shelve?
ABOUT JULES WERNERSBACH
Jules Wernersbach is founder of Hive Mind Books, a queer independent bookstore in Bushwick, Brooklyn. They are coauthor of The Swimming Holes of Texas and Vegan Survival Guide to Austin and their writing has appeared in, among others, Heavy Feather Review and Bennington Review. Wernersbach lives in Bushwick.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
BOYFRIEND co-op café + bar, 1157 Myrtle Avenue, Brooklyn, United States
USD 0.00 to USD 23.13
