Talks & Entertainment

Welcome to Night Vale is the wildly inventive tale of two women and two mysteries in Night Vale—a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. This is the first novel from Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor, the creators of the #1 iTunes Comedy podcast Welcome to Night Vale.

Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked “KING CITY” by a mysterious man. Everything about him and his paper unsettles her, especially the fact that she can’t seem to get the paper to leave her hand, and that no one who meets this man can remember anything about him.

Night Vale PTA treasurer Diane Crayton is starting to see her son Josh’s father everywhere she goes, looking the same as the day he left years earlier, when they were both teenagers. Josh, looking different every time Diane sees him, shows a stronger interest in his estranged father.

Diane’s search to reconnect with her son and Jackie’s search for her former routine life collide as they find themselves coming back to two words: “KING CITY.” It is King City that holds the key to both of their mysteries, and their futures…if they can ever find it. In conversation with Linda Holmes, host of NPR’s entertainment and pop-culture blog, Monkey See and NPR podcast Pop Culture Happy Hour. Book signing to follow.