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AUTHOR READING & Q&A WITH DANIEL BOYD

South Charleston Public Library

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Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

1.5 hours

312 Fourth Avenue, South Charleston, WV, United States, West Virginia 25309

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Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm (EDT)

312 Fourth Avenue, South Charleston, West Virginia 25309

380 Hog Aly, South Charleston, WV 25303, United States, Charleston

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AUTHOR READING & Q&A WITH DANIEL BOYD
SCPL is partnering with Plot Twist Books to host author and filmmaker Daniel Boyd on September 5 at 6pm.

God’s Pool in Particle Park is where magical realism infuses the down-on-its-luck town of Nottus, West Virginia, and its citizens. The town's librarian, Tate, purchases an old book, Somewhere Behind, a Depression-era tale of refugees Gray and Sarah, who are fleeing the chaos of the nation’s capital. Tate’s reading is interrupted by the appearance of Elsie, who died in 1932 while reading the same book. Elsie cannot rest her soul until she has completed the book. As she and Tate read together, romance unfurls—one in God’s Pool and one in Somewhere Behind. Ruby, a small little angel of a girl, tries to keep her mother alive while in the background a mysterious scientist is building a particle accelerator to bring a new kind of energy to the world. Or is he? Nottus becomes a place of fantastical magic with a wild cast of characters: Constable 12-Gage, doctors Wonderland and Jackson, river pirates, and grandfatherly Frank, a peddler who may be orchestrating the whole shebang.


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AUTHOR READING & Q&A WITH DANIEL BOYD, 5 September | Event in Charleston | AllEvents
AUTHOR READING & Q&A WITH DANIEL BOYD
Fri, 05 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm