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Tuesday, August 16, 6:30pm
Ithuriel’s Spear and The Green Arcade Present
The launch of Coptic Cross, the new Bill Haywood noir by John Goins,
author of the San Francisco bestseller A Portrait in the Tenderloin.
Yes, Bill Haywood, the reporter turned reluctant sleuth, is back. When
an old flame from Eritrea shows up at reporter Haywood’s door in San
Francisco, he reluctantly agrees to let her stay with him. But there
is no room in his life for a former paramour with a jealous husband.
He would prefer weeding the garden behind his apartment, studying
haiku, and smoking an occasional bowl of hashish when he isn’t working
for the small, community paper that pays his salary. The murder of a
shady jazz musician, Ayana’s disappearance, and the unwelcome visit by
the cops shocks Haywood out of his complacency…
With homegrown insight and sensitivity, John Goins’ Coptic Cross
uncovers cross sections of the City--the city of grace, the city of
humor and the tragedies that shroud the landscape like fog. He not
only sifts evidence of the present but gives insight into the future.
John Goins honors San Francisco by removing its mask.
--Tony Robles, author of Cool Don’t Live Here No More
John Goins writes beautifully about the vanishing parts of San
Francisco. Read his books and know the city behind the tourist
brochures. Meet its people living in the margin of the margins. Goins
is the storyteller’s storyteller who conducts the tragic and the
tender into books that will keep you up all night.
--James Tracy, author of Dispatches Against Displacement
Snacks will be served.
Received on Thu Aug 11 2016 - 06:10:52 EDT