About this Event
Third Place Books welcomes novelist Jules Ohman to our Lake Forest Park store! Ohman will be discussing her debut novel Body Grammar, a coming-of-age queer love story that glitters like shards of glass amidst the bright yet grueling world of international modeling. She will be in conversation with Sarah Neilson.
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Copies of Body Grammar will be available for purchase at the store. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
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About Body Grammar. . .
By the time Lou turns eighteen, modeling agents across Portland have scouted her for her striking androgynous look. Lou has no interest in fashion or being in the spotlight. She prefers to take photographs, especially of Ivy, her close friend and secret crush.
But when a hike ends in a tragic accident, Lou finds herself lost and ridden with guilt. Determined to find a purpose, Lou moves to New York and steps into the dizzying world of international fashion shows, haute couture, and editorial shoots. It’s a whirlwind of learning how to walk and how to command a body she’s never felt at ease in. But in the limelight, Lou begins to fear that she’s losing her identity—as an individual, as an artist, and as a person still in love with the girl she left behind.
A sharply observed and intimate story of grief and healing, doubt and self-acceptance set against the hyper-image-conscious industry of modeling and high fashion, Body Grammar shines with the anxieties of finding your place in the world and the heartbreaking beauty of pursuing love.
Jules Ohman received an MFA from the University of Montana and cofounded the nonprofit Free Verse. She coordinates Literary Arts’ Writers in the Schools program and lives in Portland, Oregon, with her wife. Body Grammar is her first novel. (Photo credit: Raya Jade)
Sarah Neilson is a Seattle-based freelance writer whose work appears in The Seattle Times, Shondaland, The Believer, LitHub, Catapult, and them.us among others. She can be found on Twitter @sarahmariewrote.
About Third Place Books
Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.
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Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, United States
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