About this Event
Pride Pages Book Club - Freakslaw by Jane Flett
Hey book lovers! Join us in person for the next Pride Pages Book Club session where we'll dive into Freakslaw by Jane Flett. We will be meeting at The Chocolat Bar in downtown Boise, so you can enjoy a coffee or a wonderful sweet treat. It's the perfect chance to chat, share thoughts, and celebrate some amazing storytelling. Don't miss out on great vibes and even better company!
Ticket includes a copy of Freakslaw and $5 towards a purchase at The Chocolat Bar.
- Come to meet new people and have a great conversation!
- Discussion led by Rediscovered Books Bookseller, Harlan.
- Enjoy a specialty cocktail crafted for this event
- Seating is limited to 12 participants, registration is required for each person.
- Haven’t finished the book? Come anyway, but we cannot promise no spoilers.
- Limited number of partner seats available (2 tickets, 2 vouchers, 1 book)
If you have already purchased the book from Rediscovered Books, please email a copy of your receipt to [email protected] and we will issue you a gift card equal to the cost of the book after you have registered.
About the Book:
In this riotous horror debut, a traveling carnival of troublemakers arrive in a small Scottish town and perform their favorite pastime: revenge.
It is the summer of ‘97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change.
Enter the Freakslaw—a travelling carnival of deviant queers and architects of mayhem. There’s Gloria, fortune teller and worm charmer; her daughter Nancy, a contortionist witch; big-hearted tightrope walker, Werewolf Louie; not to mention illusionists and conjoined twins, Cass and Henry, and tattooed human pincushion, the Pin Gal. Against Pitlaw’s miserably grey landscape, the carnival shines electric and bright, and it doesn’t take long for the town’s teenagers to be seduced by its neon charms and the possibility of escape.
But beneath it all, these newcomers are harboring a darker desire: revenge. Revenge for being cast out, never allowed to settle, punished for purely existing. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic, unwelcoming locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that has been bubbling for centuries is about to be unleashed . . .
Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love meets Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus in this sizzling debut by a writer as captivating as she is incisive, as wild as she is precise. Read this and try not to run away with the Freakslaw. Go on. We dare you.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
The Chocolat Bar, 801 West Main Street, Boise, United States
USD 51.13 to USD 84.52
