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IN-PERSON: New York Times Bestselling Author Megan Abbott, Author of El Dorado Drive
Thursday, Jun. 26, 6:30 p.m.
El Dorado Drive is a simmering, atmospheric novel of friendship and betrayal, following a women-led pyramid scheme in suburban Detroit. Megan Abbott turns her keen eye toward women and money, weaving together a creative story about power, vulnerability, and how desperation draws out our most destructive impulses. Library Journal, in a starred review, praises El Dorado Drive as “Unsettling and darkly clever."
In suburban Detroit, the three Bishop Sisters grew up in privilege, but as the auto industry declined, so did their wealth and fortunes. The sisters now find themselves in difficult situations to make ends meet when the eldest sister approaches her siblings about joining her in a new economic venture. The Wheel offers women like themselves a way to make their own money, independent of husbands or families. Quickly, however, the Wheel’s success, and their own addiction to it, leads to greater and greater risks—and a crime so shocking it threatens to bring everyone and everything down with it.
Megan Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of eleven crime novels, including You Will Know Me, Give Me Your Hand, and the New York Times bestseller The Turnout, the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Paris Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Dare Me, the series she adapted from her own novel, is now available to stream on Netflix.
Copies of El Dorado Drive will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of The Learned Owl Book Shop. Registration for this event is required. To register, please visit hudsonlibrary.org.
If you have any questions, please email askus@hudson.lib.oh.us or call (330) 653-6658 x1010.
In suburban Detroit, the three Bishop Sisters grew up in privilege, but as the auto industry declined, so did their wealth and fortunes. The sisters now find themselves in difficult situations to make ends meet when the eldest sister approaches her siblings about joining her in a new economic venture. The Wheel offers women like themselves a way to make their own money, independent of husbands or families. Quickly, however, the Wheel’s success, and their own addiction to it, leads to greater and greater risks—and a crime so shocking it threatens to bring everyone and everything down with it.
Megan Abbott is the Edgar award-winning author of eleven crime novels, including You Will Know Me, Give Me Your Hand, and the New York Times bestseller The Turnout, the winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. She received her Ph.D. in English and American literature from New York University and her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Guardian, the Paris Review, and the Wall Street Journal. Dare Me, the series she adapted from her own novel, is now available to stream on Netflix.
Copies of El Dorado Drive will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of The Learned Owl Book Shop. Registration for this event is required. To register, please visit hudsonlibrary.org.
If you have any questions, please email askus@hudson.lib.oh.us or call (330) 653-6658 x1010.
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