Brooklyn Thomas Isn’t Here launch party at Book Warehouse
VANCOUVER, BC — Brooklyn Thomas Isn’t Here, by Alli Vail, officially launches Tuesday, May 21 at the Book Warehouse in Vancouver.
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for this free event at the 4118 Main St. location. The author reading and Q&A starts at 7 p.m.
This debut novel, from Post Hill Press, explores how women contort and minimize themselves to fit the roles society and family offer them.
Brooklyn Thomas Isn't Here is an honest, compelling page-turner that is a clever take on the ways women change shape to fit into society. In this debut novel, Brooklyn wakes up one morning without a heartbeat and struggles to find what makes life worth living in this twisted tale about fitting in, speaking up, grief, love and obsession. Through the life and experiences of the main character, Brooklyn, Vail aims to show readers that it is never too late for a second chance at life.
Brooklyn’s summer is off to a bad start and getting worse. She’s mostly dead. She can’t feel her heart beat and she’s disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirrors. No one else seems to notice. Not her coworkers at the artisanal doughnut shop she works at after failing at her high-paying marketing job. Not her crush, whom she keeps humiliating herself in front of. Not her parents, whose basement suite she’s stuck living in now that she can’t afford rent anymore. To top it all off, she’s hallucinating stars from all her favorite TV shows who want Brooklyn to pull herself together and face the truth about what happened to her career, her best friend, and her relationship with her brother.
As her past collides with her present in painful and unexpected ways, Brooklyn must decide if she's strong enough to confront what haunts her and get a second chance at a real life — before mostly dead turns into actually dead.
The book launch is a free event open to the public.
Alli Vail is a former journalist for national and provincial award-winning community newspapers. She is a content writer and marketer for literary festivals and nonprofits, and has worked in tech, video games, and politics. She’s happy she’s no longer the only woman in work meetings. She studied creative writing at Simon Fraser University. Brooklyn Thomas Isn’t Here is her debut novel. She lives in Vancouver.