Book Release: Karol Lagodzki's "Controlled Conversations"

Thu Aug 29 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-04:00

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Book Release: Karol Lagodzki's "Controlled Conversations"
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Join Tomorrow Bookstore for the launch of Karol Lagodzki's debut historical fiction novel, "Controlled Conversations"
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Join Tomorrow Bookstore for the launch of Karol Lagodzki's debut historical fiction novel, "Controlled Conversations" - copies will be available for purchase and signing.

About Controlled Conversations: In 1982 Soviet-controlled Poland-a time and place of suspicion and mistrust-when geopolitical forces and violent men descend upon her little town of Zygmuntowo, Emilia must decide if she's willing to risk Pr*son or worse for self-respect and for her unexpected love. As the only daughter of a local Communist Party apparatchik, Emilia has enjoyed a sheltered life, but with the advent of martial law, her mother's influence can no longer shield her. She faces choices she never expected to make when she discovers her best friend's and lover's involvement with the resistance. With new allies and enemies in town, the time to choose a side is now.

In his debut novel, Karol Lagodzki asks: What separates people who transcend their fear and take risks for the sake of change from the rest of us? The answer is up to the readers.

"Karol Lagodzki's debut novel Controlled Conversations, set in 1980s Poland under martial law, is both taut and timely, reminding us that conflicts in Eastern Europe have the power to shake the rest of the world. Lagodzki really knows his characters, and he writes about them with unfailing empathy. The book is riveting, and I loved reading it. I seldom find a contemporary novel this engrossing." -Steve Yarbrough, author of The Unmade World, Stay Gone Days, and many other novels.

Karol Lagodzki, a native of Poland, is an exophonic author of English-language fiction. His stories have appeared in Invisible City, Storm Cellar, NUNUM, Streetlight Magazine, and elsewhere, and he has won Panel Magazine's Ruritania Prize for Short Fiction. Controlled Conversations is his debut novel. He holds an MFA in creative writing, buys more books than he can read or afford-usually novels and short story collections, though he's been known to pick up an odd book of poetry or accessible science-and gives back to the literary community by serving as a reader for literary journals.

Karol's non-writing careers have ranged from fixing stucco while dangling from roofs in Paris to sorting through human cadaver heads in Florida to developing and marketing medical devices for critically ill people in the American Midwest, but his true ambition is to remain a student for as long as he possibly can and make sure more stories make it out of his head and onto the page. Karol lives halfway down a Southern Indiana ravine with his wonderful, unconventional family, a scurry of squirrels, a passel of possums, a gaze of raccoons, a descent of woodpeckers, and a large dog.


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