About this Event
ABOUT THE BOOK
For twenty years, Greta Davenport has lived with the guilt of surviving the accident that killed her parents. She’s tested the limits of her own mortality ever since, but little gives her the dopamine rush she craves. Not until the night she almost drunkenly crashes her car into a tree, and a peculiar blank card slides under her front door—an invitation to the Found Object Society. What she discovers there is beyond comprehension: an opulent, subterranean playground filled with aisles of objects from different eras and regions of the world. Pick an object and go on a voyage to relive the final moments of the person who died holding it, along with an unparalleled, irreplicable high. Greta’s hooked, but she can't quiet her questions about the society and its enigmatic creators, the answers to which have implications far beyond her growing dependence on the voyages. Death is addictive, and what she uncovers will put her entire life into question.
A fever dream of a novel with episodic, time-traveling chapters told from multiple points of view, The Found Object Society examines the depraved whims of the ultrarich and the breadth of unresolved trauma—all while asking how grief and the choices we make in its aftermath can change the course of our lives. Michelle Maryk’s wholly original and ambitious debut opens an impeccably wrought speculative world of greed, power, and destiny.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Michelle Maryk graduated from Cornell University with a degree in English and attended the Yale Writer’s Workshop. Her writing has appeared in Oprah Daily, Writer’s Digest, CrimeReads, People Magazine, and elsewhere. For the better part of twenty-five years, she’s been a successful voiceover, on-camera commercial, and comedic actor, and she is a dual Swedish and US citizen. Fun fact: Michelle starred in an atrocious horror movie alongside Oscar-winner, Cliff Robertson, called The13th Child. The movie was written by… Michelle’s dad. The Found Object Society is her debut novel. Learn more https://www.michellemaryk.com/
Allison Buccola is a lawyer-turned-thriller-writer and the author of THE ASCENT and CATCH HER WHEN SHE FALLS. Her work has been praised by the Washington Post, the Seattle Times, Katie Couric Media, and other publications. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and two children. Learn more https://www.allisonbuccola.com/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Partners in Crime Bookshop, 4105 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago, United States
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