Tom Bredehoft Reading and Conversation with Mary Kate Hurley

1124 Parsons Ave.,Columbus OH 43206

16 August, 2022

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Doors 7:30pm, event 8pm. Join us in celebrating the release of the new novel, Foote, by Tom Bredehoft. Tom Bredehoft will be reading from his novel and then joined in conversation with Mary Kate Hurley. About Foote: A Mystery Novel: In the space of one weekend in Morgantown, West Virginia, private investigator Big Jim Foote finds himself at the center of two murder investigations. Suspected of one killing at a local festival, he locates the body of a missing person immediately after. The cops are watching him, and Big Jim has a secret he dares not reveal: he is a bigfoot living in plain sight, charged with keeping his people in the surrounding hills from being discovered. To protect the bigfoot secret, he must solve both murders—and convince himself it wasn’t a bigfoot who pulled the trigger. ​Through the course of his investigations, Big Jim is helped by unique and well-rendered characters and friends in both his bigfoot and human communities. Readers are introduced to Appalachian mountain folk and traditional culture in new ways, even while Big Jim experiences the impact of the opioid epidemic on his own bigfoot kin. By centering a mythical creature as the unlikely protagonist in this enchanting literary murder mystery, Foote offers a winsome redefinition of a cryptid “monster” and breathes new life into the PI genre. Doors 7:30pm, event 8pm.