Please SAVE THE DATE: March 21, 7pm; Michael Zapata will join us to discuss his book The Lost Book of Adana Moreau. The entire discussion will take place on Zoom: Tuesdays, 7pm: 3/7, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, & 4/4

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Michael Zapata is a founding editor of Make magazine, winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction, a finalist for the 2020 Heartland Booksellers Award in Fiction, and a Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, and BookPage, among others. He is the recipient of an Illinois Arts Council Award for Fiction and the City of Chicago DCASE Individual Artist Program Award. He is on the core faculty of StoryStudio Chicago and the MFA faculty of Northwestern University. As a public school educator, he taught literature and writing in high schools servicing dropout students. He currently lives in Chicago with his family.

In 1929 in New Orleans, a Dominican immigrant named Adana Moreau writes a science fiction novel. The novel earns rave reviews, and Adana begins a sequel. Then she falls gravely ill. Just before she dies, she destroys the only copy of the manuscript.

Decades later, in Chicago, Saul Drower is cleaning out his dead grandfather’s home when he discovers a mysterious manuscript written by none other than #AdanaMoreau. With the help of his friend Javier, Saul tracks down an address for Adana’s son in New Orleans, but as Hurricane Katrina strikes, they must head to the storm-ravaged city for answers. What results is a brilliantly layered masterpiece—an ode to home, storytelling and the possibility of parallel worlds.

photo credit: Organic Headshots/Michelle Kaffko