Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Bookshop is pleased to present Leopoldo Gout  in conversation with Tananarive Due to discuss Gout’s new novel Piñata. This event will be held digitally via Crowdcast.

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It was supposed to be the perfect summer.

Carmen Sanchez is back in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Her daughters Izel and Luna, too young to be left alone in New York, join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance for them to connect with their roots. Then, an accident at the worksite unearths a stash of rare, centuries-old artifacts. The disaster costs Carmen her job, cutting the family trip short. But something malevolent and unexplainable follows them home to New York, stalking the Sanchez family and heralding a coming catastrophe. And it may already be too late to escape what’s been awakened…

Leopoldo Gout is visual artist, filmmaker, and writer who hails from Mexico City, he studied sculpture at Central St. Martins School of Art in London. His work belongs to multiple collections and has been in exhibitions all over the world. After finishing his studies, Gout’s creativity extended into writing, television, and film. He is the author of the books Ghost Radio and the award-winning Genius YA trilogy, and the recently published fable for all ages, Monarca.

Tananarive Due is an award-winning author who teaches Black Horror and Afrofuturism at  UCLA. She is an executive producer on Shudder's groundbreaking  documentary Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She and her  husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, wrote for Jordan Peele’s "The  Twilight Zone," and two segments of Shudder’s anthology film Horror Noire. They also co-wrote their Black Horror graphic novel The Keeper, illustrated by Marco Finnegan. Due and Barnes co-host a podcast, "Lifewriting: Write for Your Life!"

A leading  voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years, Due has won  an American Book Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a British Fantasy  Award, and her writing has been included in best-of-the-year  anthologies. Her books include Ghost Summer: Stories, My Soul to Keep, and The Good House. She and her late mother, civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due, co-authored Freedom in the Family: A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights.

Leopoldo Gout In Conversation With Tananarive Due