# Event Details - **Event Name**: Nafissa Thompson-Spires - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 27 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 27 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us on Tuesday, October 27 at 7 PM as Nafissa Thompson-Spires shares her debut novel, The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford.About this EventAbout the BookRich Milford is dead. At last.We find ourselves in 1920’s Oklahoma, just far enough out of Tulsa, just long enough after the Race Massacre of 1921. For as long as anyone can remember, the Milfords have led plentiful lives on the backs of the townspeople of Newville. Now, on the ominous brink of the Great Depression and at the height of Prohibition, Richard Milford was an infamous moonshiner and womanizer who, it seems, finally crossed the wrong person at the wrong time. He’s dead and buried with only his women to mourn him, but a question remains: Who killed him, and why?Top suspects are his four “wives,” Lally, Sophronia, Georgette, and Vivianne. But as their stories burst to light, the very idea of a true story comes apart before our eyes.In an electric follow-up to her acclaimed debut collection, Nafissa Thompson-Spires once again serves up a brilliant distillation of front-of-mind happenings—think, cults of personality, capitalism run amok in politics, and rampant societal distrust—structured like a stupefying line dance. In her uniquely powerful, humorous manner, Thompson-Spires takes on the interdependent clash of the traditional and the newfangled in this gobsmackingly excellent novel.About the AuthorNafissa Thompson-Spires is the author of the award-winning, National Book Award longlisted short story collection, Heads of the Colored People. She earned a doctorate in English from ­­­­Vanderbilt University and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from ­­­­­­the University of Illinois. Her short fiction and essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, New York magazine’s “The Cut,” The Root, The White Review, Ploughshares, 400 Souls: A Community History of African America 1619–2019,and The 1619 Project, among other publications. In addition to a debut novel, The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Rich Milford, her young adult debut is forthcoming. She is the recipient of a 2024 United States Artists Grant and a 2019 Whiting Award. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/south-hadley/nafissa-thompson-spires/100001996284381323 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, sports, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - door_time: 2026-10-27T22:30:00Z - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Odyssey Bookshop - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: South Hadley - **state**: MA - **country**: United States - **location**: Odyssey Bookshop - **lat**: 42.259151 - **long**: -72.57602 - **full address**: Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Nafissa Thompson-Spires - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/49bfa7fa8e68d5557a0810ba91b292252c774e1a10ebd964c57696c38ff92fa9-rimg-w1200-h863-dcd8c8c8-gmir.jpg?v=1785543394 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Nafissa Thompson-Spires being held? - **A:** Nafissa Thompson-Spires takes place on Tue, 27 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Tue, 27 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Odyssey Bookshop, 9 College Street, South Hadley, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Nafissa Thompson-Spires? - **A:** Nafissa Thompson-Spires is organized by Odyssey Bookshop. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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