NEW ORLEANS (press release) – Blue Cypress Books will host author Marguerite Sheffer on Wednesday, Nov. 6 at 6:30 p.m. Ms. Sheffer will be in conversation with writer Maurice Carlos Ruffin. They will discuss Ms. Sheffer’s debut book, “The Man in the Banana Trees: Stories.” The event will include a reading and discussion followed by an audience q&a and a book signing.
This event is ticketed. Five dollar tickets include entrance to this engaging conversation and curated refreshments. Twenty dollar tickets also include a signed copy of “The Man in the Banana Trees: Stories.” Tickets may be purchased through the website here.
This event will take place at the bookstore, located at 8123 Oak St.
“Rarely have I come across ideas as original, prose as exquisite, and hearts as bared on the page as those found in this collection. I am blown away by its achievement. Marguerite Sheffer is extraordinary.” – Julia Phillips, author, “Bear”
The stories in The Man in the Banana Trees take place in the past, present, and future—from the American Gulf South to the orbit around Jupiter. We meet teachers and students, ghosts and aliens. An ice cream consultant in the year 2036 predicts a devastating flavor trend and a disgruntled New England waiter investigates a mysterious tanker crash. Although wildly varied in setting, length, and genre, a thread of the fantastic unites these stories, as characters struggle to understand that thing lurking at the edge of their perception: something sinister, or maybe—miraculous.
