St. Louis County Library Authors The J Presents Bestselling Novelist B. A. Shapiro

Florissant MO

09 June, 2022

7:57 AM

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Press release from the St. Louis County Library: June 7, 2022 St. Louis County Library and the JCC of St. Louis are pleased to host an SLCL Authors @ the J event with bestselling novelist B.A. Shapiro. Shapiro will be discussing her new novel "Metropolis." Monday, June 13, at 7:00 p.m. at the JCC's Staenberg Family Center – Mirowitz Performing Arts Center, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146. The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from Left Bank Books. The New York Times bestselling author of "The Art Forger" delivers a spellbinding and moving novel about what we hang on to, what we might need to let go, and how unexpected events can lead us to deeper truths. Six people, six secrets, six different backgrounds. They would never have met if not for their connection to the Metropolis Storage Warehouse in Cambridge, Massachusetts. When someone falls down an elevator shaft at the facility, each becomes caught up in an intensifying chain of events. We meet Serge, an unstable but brilliant street photographer who lives in his storage unit, which overflows with thousands of undeveloped pictures; Marta, an undocumented immigrant finishing her dissertation and hiding from ICE; Liddy, an abused wife and mother, who recreates her children's bedroom in her unit; Jason, a former corporate lawyer now practicing in the facility; Rose, the office manager, who takes illegal kickbacks to let renters live in the building; and Zach, the building's owner and an ex-drug dealer, who scans Serge's photos as he searches for clues to the accident. But was it an accident? A murder attempt? Suicide? As her characters dip in and out of one another's lives trying to find answers and battling societal forces beyond their control, B. A. Shapiro both questions the myth of the American dream and builds tension to an exhilarating climax. Taut and emotional, Metropolis is impossible to put down and impossible to forget. B. A. Shapiro is the bestselling author of "Metropolis," "The Collector's Apprentice," "The Muralist," and "The Art Forger," which won the New England Book Award for Fiction, among other honors. Her books have been selected as Community Reads across the country and translated throughout the world. She has taught sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University. Program sites are accessible. With at least two weeks' notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Call 314-994-3300 or contact us. This press release was produced by the St. Louis County Library. The views expressed here are the author's own.