Join us for a very special discussion with the author of Cold Girls, Maxine Rae! This will be a virtual event hosted over Zoom, with a link to be sent the day of the event. The first hour will be dedicated to our normall book club discussion forum, with the author joiningg for the second hour. Please make sure you RSVP forr this event - otherwise you will not be sent the link.

Here’s some more info on the novel:

Eighteen-year-old Rory Quinn-Morelli doesn’t want to die; she wants refuge from reality for even a minute: the reality where she survived the car crash eight months ago, and her best friend, Liv, didn’t. Yet her exasperating mother won’t believe the Xanax incident was an accident, and her therapist is making it increasingly hard to maintain the detached, impenetrable “cold girl” façade she adopted from Liv. After she unintentionally reconnects with Liv’s parents, Rory must decide: will she keep Liv’s and her secrets inside, or will she finally allow herself to break? And if she breaks, what will she unearth amid the pieces?

And some more info on Maxine:

Lambda Literary Award finalist Maxine Rae attended Tulane University, where she was taught and singled out for commendation by two-time National Book Award–winner Jesmyn Ward. Her first novel, COLD GIRLS (2023) has received critical acclaim, earning a Kirkus Stared Review and a spot on their Best Young Adult Books of 2023 list.

While working on Cold Girls, Maxine received feedback and mentorship from National Book Award–finalist Charles Baxter. She later revised and workshopped the manuscript in the selective Novel in a Year program at StoryStudio Chicago, whose artistic director is Pulitzer Prize in Fiction–finalist and Andrew Carnegie Medal–winner Rebecca Makkai. As a young, queer woman from the Chicago area, Maxine has written a debut molded by emotional truth.

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QBC Presents:A Bookish Chat with Author Maxine Rae on Her Debut Novel COLD GIRLS

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