# Event Details - **Event Name**: HELENE WECKER: THE GATES OF MIDNIGHT at Books Inc. Palo Alto - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 06 Oct, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Tue, 06 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Helene Wecker is at Books Inc. Palo Alto to celebrate the long-awaited final volume of The Golem and the Jinni trilogy The Gates of MidnightAbout this EventThe Gates of Midnight is a richly imagined and deeply transporting novel that brings this remarkable saga to an unforgettable close.At the beginning of The Hidden Palace, the second book in Helene Wecker’s Golem and Jinni trilogy, Ahmad the jinni travels to Syria with the copper flask that holds the captured wizard Yehudah Schaalman. There in the desert he buries the flask for all time… or so he thinks.In The Gates of Midnight, the riveting conclusion to the saga of the Golem and the Jinni, it’s 1930 and three decades have passed since Schaalman’s defeat. Chava the golem quietly tends to her house and garden in Brooklyn, hoping to create a refuge for other magical beings. Meanwhile, Ahmad has found employment as an architect in Chicago, helping to build its towering skyline above the prairie.But all is not well in the desert. Schaalman has managed to trick an unsuspecting passerby into digging up the flask, and now it passes from hand to hand as the wizard possesses his victims -- first a French soldier traveling to New York, then a small-time mobster -- all in an effort to get to Chava, the only one who can release him from his Pr*son.Meanwhile others are gravitating to New York as well: Ahmad, who has lost his job following the 1929 stock market crash; the mysterious Thomas Beshara, a riveter on the rising Empire State Building, who also has hidden ties to Chava and Ahmad; and Kreindel Altschul, who still grieves her own destroyed golem Yossele. Does the reluctant Kreindel hold the key to saving Chava from Schaalman’s revenge? Will Schaalman succeed in escaping the flask, binding Chava to his will, and re-enslaving Ahmad? Or can they find a way to finally defeat him and free themselves from his power? An earth-shaking finale to the brilliant trilogy."Wecker is a marvelous storyteller.”—USA Today“An intoxicating fusion of fantasy and historical fiction. . . . Wecker’s storytelling skills dazzle.”— Entertainment WeeklyHelene Wecker is the author of The Golem and the Jinni—which was awarded the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature, the VCU Cabell Award for First Novel, and the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and was nominated for a Nebula Award and a World Fantasy Award—and its sequel, book two of the trilogy, The Hidden Palace. A Midwest native, she holds a B.A. in English from Carleton College and an M.F.A. in Fiction Writing from Columbia University. Her work has appeared in literary journals such as Joyland and Catamaran, as well as the fantasy anthology The Djinn Falls in Love and Other Stories. She currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband and children. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/palo-alto/helene-wecker-the-gates-of-midnight-at-books-inc-palo-alto/100001992163261944 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, business, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Books Inc. Palo Alto - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 38.87, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Palo Alto - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Books Inc. Palo Alto - **lat**: 37.4380888 - **long**: -122.15956130000001 - **full address**: Books Inc. Palo Alto, 74 Town & Country Village, Palo Alto, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: HELENE WECKER: THE GATES OF MIDNIGHT at Books Inc. 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