Jesse Kohn | the book of webs

1511 South 1500 East,Salt Lake City UT 84105

12 April, 2023

Description

TKE presents an in-person event featuring Jesse Kohn, who will discuss his book the book of webs. This event is open to the public, and you must reserve your seat by making a donation in any amount to Brain Food Books, our 501c3 nonprofit, putting new books into the hands of those without regular access.This entry ticket does not include a copy of the book of webs, which is sold separately. This in-person event will take place at the bookshop. About the book: Captivating and devious, the book of webs is constructed out of misremembered fragments, conflicting histories, and secrets whispered in the darkness. The insurgents tell of an enemy so powerful it owns the air, dictates reality, and has even managed to co-opt their thoughts. Their only hope is to conspire with the uprisings of their bodies: slips of the tongue, excretions, tics, bad hair days, and, most importantly, their dreams. In this darkly comic and inventive debut novel, Jesse Kohn introduces a network of shape-shifters and misfits. A militant priestess broods over orphaned angel eggs. A post-punk band animates a messianic homunculus made of belly button lint. A failed dream journalist goes on a terrible first date to heaven. Each misadventure is a chapter in a book devised to oppose the despotic order of their enemy—the book of webs.