Name: In-Store: Julia Turshen: Down to Earth w/ Casey McQuiston
Start: 2026-06-22T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-06-22T20:00:00-04:00
Location: Books Are Magic Montague

$In-Store: Julia Turshen: Down to Earth w\/ Casey McQuiston$

This small-town sapphic romance features a vegetable farmer and a single mom finding unexpected love!
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.
The conversation will be livestreamed for free online here: https://youtube.com/live/KYSq_WslR0Q
Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
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.

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From the beloved cookbook author Julia Turshen, a queer love story set in your new favorite town, Sungold.

Frankie doesn’t quite know what to make of Paige, who’s just moved from Brooklyn to her quiet Upstate New York hometown with all the pressed-clothes polish of a city girl. Paige, with her eight-year-old son in tow, is seeking refuge from a rocky relationship and is equally thrown by Frankie: Why can’t she stop thinking about this eternally single, charming, gay vegetable farmer? And could the attraction she’s feeling grow into something more?

Julia Turshen is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author. She writes a twice-weekly newsletter, teaches online cooking classes, farms part time at Long Season Farm, and is a competitive powerlifter. The Washington Post called her latest cookbook, , “absolutely genius.” Julia lives in the Hudson Valley with her spouse Grace and their many pets.

Casey McQuiston is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of queer romantic comedies. Their books have been honored by the Stonewall Book Awards, the Lambda Literary Awards, and the American Library Association, and their writing on life and literature has been published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, and Bon Appétit. Their debut novel, Red, White and Royal Blue, was adapted to an Emmy-nominated film in 2023. When not writing love stories, they can be found staring at the nearest body of water or spending time with their beloved and always-hungry poodle mix, Pepper. Born and raised in Southern Louisiana, Casey now lives with their family in beautiful Queens, New York.