Curious Readers Club: Early Sobrieties

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Curious Readers Club: Early Sobrieties
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Join us in the bookshop for our next Curious Readers Club on 10 September. We will be diving into Michael Deagler's PEN/Hemingway Award-winning novel, Early Sobrieties. Full of heart and wit, this book explores how you create a new life for yourself when you're surrounded by the old life.
We will dig into all the big ideas and small moments that made us feel the feelings. Mike will join us virtually from the West Coast of the US to answer our questions. Plus, when you register for this event, you get 10% off the paperback of Early Sobrieties (out now, £9.99) in the shop – and some swag!
What to expect:
+ 7:00pm – Settle in with a drink & a biscuit
+ 7:15pm – Book club chat commences
+ 7:30pm – Q&A with Michael Deagler
+ 8:00pm - Book club chat continues
+ 8:30pm – The end
The Curious Readers Club is a book club for, you guessed it, curious readers. Books are selected by Leslie at First Draft Books with an eye towards unique, thought-provoking debut titles. Always in paperback. Always discussion-worthy. Join us!
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ABOUT THE BOOK
Dennis Monk is about to spend his first summer sober. At twenty-six he is ready to re-join sensible adult life, but just when Dennis needs stability, his uptight parents kick him out into a world of couch-surfing.
Everything around him has changed and everyone he knows seems to be doing better than he is. At every street corner, former classmates, estranged drinking buddies, and prospective lovers threaten to burst the bubble of his recovery. And Dennis Monk is about to learn the difference between getting sober and staying sober in this new world.
Early Sobrieties is a devastatingly witty novel about coming of age a second time. Deagler’s debut marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in American fiction.
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