We are excited to host Tom Maurstad in the store on January 19th at 6:00PM to discuss his new novel, Mind the Gap.

DESCRIPTION

Justin Mayhaps is an advertising wiz turned web-based marketing guru, and Ellis Presley is a musician-video artist on the cusp of indie/internet fame. They are both stuck: Justin in his unresolved guilt, Ellis in her unresolved anger.

Cast against the immediate backdrop of South by Southwest, Austin’s annual multimedia Mardi Gras, and the larger context of a growing social-cultural protest, the eXit movement, a revolution prompted by the exploding gap between the haves and have-nots, Justin’s and Ellis’ stories are told simultaneously, narrative tracks bound to intersect, creating a portrait of imperfect symmetry.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Thomas Maurstad lives in Dallas, TX. His collection of short stories, Flyover States, will be published in 2023. He is working on his next novel, tentatively titled Dreaming of Sleep.