Jason Diamond & Emily Tamkin for KAPLAN'S PLOT at Jackie Lee's

Loyalty is headed back to our fave bar Jackie Lee's for a custom cocktail menu celebrating Jason's Diamond's Kaplan's Plot! To celebrate this fantastic debut novel we're gathering together with author Jason Diamond in conversation with Emily Tamkin for a great chat, delicious drinks, food (of course), and an classic dive bar vibes. See you there!

**This event is ticketed and registration is required** Please RSVP via Eventbrite to reserve your space + a copy of the book! We'll also have additional copies of Kaplan's Plott and Jason's additional nonfiction available for purchase at the event.

ABOUT THE BOOK:

A dazzling debut novel about mothers and sons, crime and consequence, unspoken family secrets, and being Jewish in America

Elijah Mendes was hoping for a more triumphant return to Chicago. His mother, Eve, is dying of cancer, his business flamed out, and he has nowhere else to go. So he returns to Chicago feeling listless and shattered, worried about how he’s going to help his mother despite their chilly relationship. He finds some inspiration when he discovers that their family owns a Jewish cemetery and that a man he’s never heard of, his great-uncle Solomon Kaplan, is buried in a plot there. With a new sense of purpose—and an excuse to talk more deeply with his mother—Elijah begins pursuing a family mystery of extraordinary proportions.Elijah discovers his grandfather Yitz, Eve’s father, was a powerful gangster in the 1920s. She was ashamed and never spoke about him to Elijah. As secrets unravel, the past and present become intertwined, and Yitz’s story forces Elijah and Eve to bond in ways they never have before and begin to accept each other, not as who they wish they were but as they both are.Kaplan’s Plot is an astonishing balancing act between the ruthless and the tender, the superficial and the truth, by a writer with tremendous promise.

Jason Diamond is the author of Searching for John Hughes, The Sprawl and co-author of New York Nico's Guide to NYC (with Nicolas Heller). His work has been published by the New York Times, Esquire, The New Yorker, GQ, The Paris Review, and many other outlets. He publishes the newsletter The Melt, was born in Skokie, Illinois, and currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughter. Kaplan’s Plot is his first novel.

ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER:

Emily Tamkin is a journalist and the author of The Influence of Soros and Bad Jews and is at work on a third book on Holocaust remembrance in pop culture, politics, and foreign policy. She is a contributing columnist at the Forward and writes regularly for the New Republic, Slate, and the Washington Post, among other publications. Previously, she covered US foreign affairs at Foreign Policy and BuzzFeed News and foreign policy, society, and politics as US editor at the New Statesman. She has been the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship, a Heinrich Böll fellowship, and a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship. She lives in Washington, DC.

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