On Friday, April 25th at 7 PM (at our Frankfort Ave store), we are delighted to welcome Jacinda Townsend for a reading from and signing of her debut novel, "Saint Monkey." Set in Eastern Kentucky's Black community shortly after the Korean War, Jacinda Townsend’s remarkable first novel is a coming-of-age story made at once gripping and poignant by the wild energy of the Jazz Era and the stark realities of segregation. Marrying musical prose with lyric vernacular, "Saint Monkey" delivers a stirring portrait of American storytelling and marks the appearance of an auspicious new voice in literary fiction.