Name: The Unveiling- meet the author
Start: 2025-10-29T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Tapley Memorial Hall

Advanced tickets recommended
Copper Dog Books welcomes back Prof. Amy Quan Barry
From the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I’m Gone, Look for Me in the East, The Unveiling is a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America’s racial legacy.
Join us for a once in a lifetime presentation from award-winning poet, playwright, and author Quan Barry for her new book The Unveiling at historic Tapley Memorial Hall in Danvers.
Quan Barry is the Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the author of numerous books of fiction and poetry, including the recent collection Auction, which the New York Times named one of the 5 best poetry books of 2023. A recipient of NEA fellowships in both poetry and fiction, Barry was the inaugural writer-in-residence at Forward Theater where her play, The Mytilenean Debate, premiered in the spring of 2022. Barry’s fourth novel, The Unveiling, is set in Antarctica and due out from Grove Press this fall.
The Unveiling is “a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America’s racial legacy. Striker isn’t entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise. A Black film scout, her mission is to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie about Ernest Shackleton’s doomed expedition. Along the way, she finds private if cautious amusement in the behavior of both the native wildlife and the group of wealthy, mostly white tourists who have chosen to spend Christmas on the Weddell Sea. But when a kayaking excursion goes horribly wrong, Striker and a group of survivors become stranded on a remote island along the Antarctic Peninsula, a desolate setting complete with boiling geothermal vents and vicious birds. Soon the hostile environment will show each survivor their true face, and as the polar ice thaws in the unseasonable warmth, the group’s secrets, prejudices, and inner demons will also emerge, including revelations from Striker’s past that could irrevocably shatter her world.”– Provided by publisher.