Join us for an evening with Paris Writer in Residence Rachel Lyon to discuss Lyon’s captivating new novel, Fruit of the Dead, "an electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, exploring who holds the power in a modern underworld."  The conversation will range across the complexity of mother-daughter relations, love, control, and American's own late capitalist mythos. 

Fruit of the Dead has been called "a spellbinding account of a young woman’s hunger for freedom, the sordid underbelly of big pharma, and the siren call of addiction" (Leslie Jameson).

The conversation will be followed by a drinks reception and book sale.