All She Wrote Books June Breakfast Club

This June, our Breakfast Club will read Women! In! Peril! by Jessica Ren Marshall. Mark your calendar for Sunday, June 15th at 10:30am as we gather at All She Wrote Books to discuss this ferociously feminist debut short story collection from award-winning playwright Jessie Ren Marshall.

Event Highlights:

• Immersive Book Discussion with a Community of Enthusiastic Readers
• Coffee and pastries from local French bakery, Michette
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Tickets are limited to due to capacity at the bookstore, and each ticket will include either:

• A copy of the breakfast book club pick; or 
• General admission that includes coffee and pastries.

There are many ways to obtain a copy of the book (aside from your public library) — you can purchase it through allshewrotebooks.com, Bookshop.org, or Libro.fm to help support our work!

Our event has a limited capacity and we want to ensure that as many people as possible are able to attend. By letting us know that you can no longer attend, we can open up your spot to someone on our waitlist who is eager to participate.

"Inclusivity" isn't just a buzzword to us. We make every effort to ensure our space and events are accessible to and for everyone. If you or someone in your party needs accommodations, please email us at [email protected].

About the Book:

In this brash and unputdownable collection, we meet a sex bot trying to outlast her return policy, a skeptical lesbian grappling with her wife’s mysterious pregnancy, and a post-Earth colonist struggling to maintain her faith in humanity as she travels to “Planet B.” Whether they exist in the grounded realism of a college dance studio or the speculative world of Deep Space, these women push against social norms and family expectations to reclaim their power, understand their mistakes, and find a better future.

Hilarious, heartbreaking, and defiantly optimistic, the twelve stories in Women! In! Peril! balance humor and gravitas to explore the complexities of queerness, toxic relationships, parenting and divorce, Asian and Asian American identity, and so much more.

About the Author:

Jessie Ren Marshall holds an MFA in fiction from NYU, and her work has appeared in places like Gulf Coast, Joyland, ZYZZYVA, the Common, the Gettysburg Review, and the New York Times. Also a playwright, her musical Pele & The Hi'iakas was a semifinalist for the Eugene O’Neill Conference and her play Hapa Girls won Kumu Kahua’s Hawai'i Prize. She lives off-grid with her dogs on Hawai'i Island.

Our Book Club Guidelines:

• We strive for a thoughtful and respectful discussion of the featured book and its related themes.
• You do not have to have finished the book to participate, but we ask that you contribute to the discussion in whatever way you feel comfortable.
• We do not tolerate demeaning, discriminatory, or harassing behavior and speech.

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