Award-Winning Writer To Read at LTCC Writers’ Series June 13

On June 13 at 7 pm Bona Fide Books will launch award-winning author Ann Gelder’s “Bigfoot and the Baby” as part of the Lake Tahoe Community College’s Writers’ Series. The event is free and open to the public.
 
In Gelder’s debut novel, it’s 1986 and homemaker Jackie Majesky knows the world is ending. Apocalyptic portents—famine, war, the Chernobyl meltdown—have been piling up for months. Her comedian-cop husband and punk-rock daughter see nothing amiss, but her new baby, Mollie, won’t stop screaming. Jackie decides it’s up to her to save the world, and her hapless family, from damnation. She moves them to a domed city where they find a different kind of salvation.

 
Gelder examines faith through the Majesky family, questioning our certainty that things we can’t see or touch or even really define actually exist. “To me, those questions resonated particularly with religion and capitalism, and U. S. culture seems rooted in these two beliefs,” says Gelder. “So in the end it became a story about America itself.”
 
Foreword Magazine selected “Bigfoot and the Baby” as one of its five debut novels of the summer, calling “a delightful black satire,” exploring themes of belonging and belief.
 
Gelder’s work has appeared in “Alaska Quarterly Review,” “Crazyhorse,” Flavorwire, The Millions, The Rumpus, “Tin House,” and other publications. She has taught literature at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, and has worked as an online producer and marketing consultant. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
 
Books will be available for signing and purchase.
 
Lake Tahoe Community College is located at 1 College Drive in South Lake Tahoe. For more information on this or other Bona Fide events, contact Kim Wyatt at editor@bonafidebooks.com or visit the website at www.bonafidebooks.com.