About this Event
You are cordially invited to the launch party of Haili Blassingame's novel, THEY ALL FALL IN LOVE AT THE END! In celebration of its release, Haili, and a crew of writers she has assembled, will read excerpts from their work, but there will also be audience participation in the form of anonymously submitting messy dating stories. It's going to be a night of laughter, of gasps, of books, of great company. Refreshments will be available. We can't wait to see you there!
About the book:
Cat St. Clair is ready for her messy love triangle era now that she's in an open relationship. But she didn ' t foresee a forbidden love triangle with the only two people who are off-limits: her boyfriend's best friend and his girlfriend. Being a twenty-something writer who lives for plot, she falls for them anyway, with deliciously disastrous consequences, in this electric literary debut for fans of Xochitl Gonzalez, Coco Mellors, Lily King, and Raven Leilani.
It's the fall of 2024, and twenty-four-year-old Cat isn't asking for too much: all she wants is three boyfriends, to write her little novels, and to survive another chaotic presidential election. She's in an open relationship with her college sweetheart Jay, but nonmonogamy isn't just a hot trend she's trying. It's her sliver of freedom in a world eager to wrestle it from her for being a Black woman going after what she wants with reckless abandon.
While political tensions roil the campus where Cat is slowly earning her creative writing degree, she finds herself drawn to Jay's best friend, Tristan, who's smart, super hot, and...in a monogamous relationship. And then she meets Tristan's girlfriend, Nia, a captivating art student with her own gravitational pull.
Friends and family urge her to just be happy with Jay, but Cat is determined to have it all--or blow up her life trying. As she falls for all the wrong people, racking up lies, betrayals, and terrible drafts of her novel, she tries to write her way to a happy ending. But in art, politics, and love, true liberation may take more than rewriting the old scripts. It may mean inventing something entirely new.
About the author:
Haili Blassingame is a producer for the show 1A from WAMU and NPR. She writes literary fiction about love, desire, and the decisions that feel impossible to make starring plucky, loud-mouth female protagonists of color. Her debut novel is called THEY ALL FALL IN LOVE AT THE END. It has a hot-pink cover. She's also written a New York Times Modern Love essay about breaking up with her boyfriend and a piece in The New Republic about Kamala Harris and Gretchen Whitmer. She lives in Washington, D.C with my 10,000 books and no bookshelf. You can find her on Substack at Touch Her & Die!
The assembled panel of writers are—
Christa Lei (they/them) considers themselves a try-textual (they’ll write every genre at least twice to see if it sticks) writer based in New York. They are a creative nonfiction editor at Blood Tree Literature and the community curator at Anodyne Magazine. Christa’s work has been featured as a contributor for Matador Network, published in The Seventh Wave, HerStry (amongst others) and upcoming in 45th Parallel. They are a proud McCormack Writing Center (fka Tin House), DISQUIET and Kenyon Review Workshop alum. Christa is a Nancy Blackburn Fellow at the Randolph College MFA. They are currently working on on many projects, and love to travel. When not writing, they hang out with their spouse and dogs in Brooklyn.
Kat Stoddard writes fiction about gay people, divorce, and dinner parties. Her debut novel WASP’S NEST, a contemporary queer retelling of The Philadelphia Story set at a Cape Cod wedding, comes out June 30. She lives in Baltimore with her daughter and their cats.
Aneurin Canham-Clyne is a fiction writer, literary critic and journalist. He is attending Bennington College’s MFA program for fiction while working full-time as a reporter covering major national restaurant brands. He writes, edits and publishes Getliterate.substack.com, a weekly cultural criticism newsletter.
Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact [email protected] with questions.
Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar [email protected] con cualquiera duda.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lost City Books, 2467 18th Street Northwest, Washington, United States
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