In Store Author Event with Ron Currie

Fri Mar 28 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-05:00

Watermark Books & Café | Wichita

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In Store Author Event with Ron Currie
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Watermark Books & Cafe is excited to have author Ron Currie in store for his new book, The Savage Noble Death of Babs Dionne.
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About the Book

Perfect for readers of Liz Moore and S.A. Cosby, as well as fans of Fargo and Mare of Easttown, THE SAVAGE, NOBLE DEATH OF BABS DIONNE centers on a matriarchal crime family in Waterville, Maine helmed by Babs Dionne, a steely aging widow and proud Franco-American whose cast-iron grip over Little Canada’s drug syndicate is put in jeopardy when her youngest daughter is found dead. Gritty, epic, and often darkly funny, Currie’s first entrée into crime – and the first in a planned series exploring the generations of Dionne women in Waterville – has all the qualities of a dynamic, suspenseful page-turner and everything Currie’s longtime fans have loved about his work: acerbic, gorgeously written, genre-blurring, and in the end, somehow life-affirming. The result is at once an ambitious crime epic and a poignant drama about identity, retribution, intergenerational struggle, and above all, family: a literary thriller with love and community thrumming at the center of its bruised, beating heart. We’ve already received incredible early praise from Richard Russo, Chris Pavone, and Ivy Pochoda and are positioning this one of Putnam’s tentpole titles of spring 2025.



About the Author

Ron Currie is the award-winning author of five novels. He has won the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Award, the Addison M. Metcalf Award, the Alex Award, and the Pushcart Prize. His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his short fiction and nonfiction have received recognition in Best American anthologies. As a screenwriter he worked most recently on the Apple TV+ series Extrapolations and has developed projects with AMC Studios, Amblin Television, and ITV America. He lives in Portland, Maine, and teaches in the University of Southern Maine Stonecoast MFA program.

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Watermark Books & Café, 4701 East Douglas Avenue, Wichita, United States

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