Name: In-Store: Jess Gibson: The Good Eye w/ Molly McGhee
Start: 2026-05-14T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-05-14T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

$In-Store: Jess Gibson: The Good Eye w\/ Molly McGhee$

"This collection took my breath away. A quietly, cumulatively, supernaturally brilliant debut." —Claudia Dey, author of Daughter
About this Event

Event guidelines:

Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.
Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
A signing will follow the talk.
Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/7NNge98T8-4
As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.

If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].

Startling, spellbinding stories, in which appearances and intentions are rarely what they seem from an exciting new voice in fiction.

A psychic harnesses her talent for animal communication to extract a perfect revenge. A stone appears in a woman’s pocket like a charm, only to end up lodged in her partner’s throat. A condescending artist, who considers his girlfriend too conventional, throws a dinner party where he’s served a painful and consequential truth.

Jess Gibson brings us twelve probing, sideways tales that wrestle with the limits of perception and possibility. The men and women in her stories confront contradictory forces: the beautiful can turn grotesque, the exalted can fall into disgrace, the genius can be proved an impostor.

Sharp, funny, surprising, and utterly original, The Good Eye announces a brilliant new voice in contemporary fiction.

Jess Gibson was born in Canada. She studied at McGill and the University of Toronto, and received her PhD in art history from Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her spouse and child. The Good Eye is her first book.

Molly McGhee is a novelist from Nashville, Tennessee, living in Brooklyn, New York. She is the Undergraduate Creative Writing Advisor in Fiction at Columbia University. Her work has appeared in publications such as McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, The Paris Review, and The Guardian, among others. Her novel, Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind, was shortlisted for the VCU Cabell First Novel award and named a New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice.