Event

Michael Chabon

Thursday, October 25th 7:00pm - Doors open at 6:00pm
Kepler's Books
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025

As the summer of 2004 draws to a close, Archy Stallings and Nat Jaffe are still hanging in there--longtime friends, bandmates, and co-regents of Brokeland Records, a kingdom of used vinyl located in the borderlands of Berkeley and Oakland. Their wives, Gwen Shanks and Aviva Roth-Jaffe, are the Berkeley Birth Partners, two semi-legendary midwives who have welcomed more than a thousand newly minted citizens into the dented utopia at whose heart--half tavern, half temple--stands Brokeland.

When ex-NFL quarterback Gibson Goode, the fifth-richest black man in America, announces plans to build his latest Dogpile megastore on a nearby stretch of Telegraph Avenue, Nat and Archy fear it means certain doom for their vulnerable little enterprise. Meanwhile, Aviva and Gwen also find themselves caught up in a battle for their professional existence, one that tests the limits of their friendship. Adding another layer of complication to the couples' already tangled lives is the surprise appearance of Titus Joyner, the teenage son Archy has never acknowledged and the love of fifteen-year-old Julius Jaffe's life.

Michael Chabon is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prizewinning author of The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, A Model World, Wonder Boys, Werewolves in Their Youth, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Summerland (a novel for children, The Final Solution, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Maps and Legends, and Gentlemen of the Road.

Beth Morgan is a local resident, avid reader, and Kepler's volunteer, and Michael Chabon was the first author reading she ever attended ,back in 1995.

Ticket Information:

$35.00 -- Admit 1. Includes 1 copy of "Telegraph Avenue"
$10.00 -- Admit 1. Does not include book.

NOTE: TICKETS ARE NON-REFUNDABLE