Join us for the latest AI Book Club, where we’ll discuss The Gimmicks with author Chris McCormick. Set in the waning years of the Cold War, a stunning debut novel about a trio of young Armenians that moves from the Soviet Union, across Europe, to Southern California, and at its centre, one of the most tragic cataclysms in twentieth-century history-the Armenian Genocide-whose traumatic reverberations will have unexpected consequences on all three lives.
In this book club AI board member Tatiana Der Avedissian will first discuss the book with Chris, and then we’ll open to participants for questions and reflections. You can purchase the book to read ahead of the event through the link below.
https://uk.bookshop.org/.../the-gimmicks-a.../9780062908582
Join us on zoom
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86428769898...
Meeting ID: 864 2876 9898
Passcode: 875240
Author Bio:
Chris McCormick is the author of a novel, The Gimmicks (Harper, 2020), and a short story collection, Desert Boys, winner of the 2017 Stonewall Book Award—Barbara Gittings Literature Award. His essays and stories have appeared in The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Tin House, and Ploughshares. He grew up on the California side of the Mojave Desert before earning his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, and his MFA from the University of Michigan. He is an Assistant Professor in the creative writing program at Minnesota State University, Mankato, and is at work on his next novel.
This event is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund
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