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Clarion Presents Christopher Barzak

Event date: 
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - 7:00pm

Christopher Barzak

Established in 1968, the Clarion Writers’ Workshop is the oldest workshop of its kind and is widely recognized as a premier proving and training ground for aspiring writers of fantasy and science fiction.  As we do each summer, we will be hosting many of the visiting instructors at Mysterious Galaxy. Our series kicks off with Christopher Barzak, who was born and raised in rural Ohio, has lived in a southern California beach town, the capital of Michigan, and the suburbs of Tokyo, Japan, where he taught English in rural junior high and elementary schools. One for Sorrow , his first novel, was a Locus Magazine award nominee for Best First Novel. In The Gone Away Place, after tornadoes demolish Newfoundland, Ohio, Ellie, seventeen, is haunted by ghosts of the dead, as well as survivors struggling to cope, but a chance encounter shows her how to free the lingering spirits.

For further information, see the Clarion Workshop website.

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The Gone Away Place By Christopher Barzak Cover Image
$19.79
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ISBN: 9780399556098
Published: Knopf Books for Young Readers - May 15th, 2018

From Stonewall Honor author Christopher Barzak comes a haunting novel of love and loss, in which a series of tornadoes rips through a small midwest town, forever altering the lives of those who live there.

 

Ellie heads up her high school yearbook, and until the tornadoes come, her biggest worry is how to raise enough money to print them. But since the day when a rash of powerful tornadoes touched down in Newfoundland, Ohio--killing more than half of the students in her school, not to mention dozens more people throughout the town--she's been haunted: by the ghosts of her best friends, by the boy next door, even by her boyfriend. And the living are haunting her too, all those left behind in the storm's wake to cope with the "gone away" pieces in their lives. A chance encounter with one ghost leads Ellie to discover a way to free the spirits that have been lingering since the storm, and she learns that she's not the only one seeing the ghosts--it's a town-wide epidemic.


Wonders of the Invisible World By Christopher Barzak Cover Image
$9.99
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ISBN: 9780385392822
Published: Ember - September 6th, 2016

One For Sorrow: A Novel By Christopher Barzak Cover Image
$18.72
ISBN: 9780553384369
Availability: Not in Stock, Available for Special Order
Published: Bantam - August 28th, 2007