Past Event
Thursday, August 1, 2019, 7:30 p.m.
Juliet Escoria: Juliet the Maniac
3010-B Juniper Street, San Diego, 92104
Cost: Free
Acclaimed debut novelist Juliet Escoria will discuss and sign her novel, Juliet the Maniac. Juliet will be in-conversation with local author Julia Dixon Evans. A highly anticipated debut - from a writer hailed as "a combination of Denis Johnson and Joan Didion" (Dazed) - brilliantly captures the intimate triumph of a girl's struggle to become the woman she knows she can be. Ambitious, talented fourteen-year-old honors student Juliet is poised for success at her Southern California high school. However, she soon finds herself on an increasingly frightening spiral of drug use, self-harm, and mental illness that lands her in a remote therapeutic boarding school, where she must ultimately find the inner strength to survive.