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Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009

Program 7:00-9:00 p.m., food and beverage orders from 6:30 p.m.

Bertucci’s Restaurant
2800 Clarendon Boulevard
Arlington, VA 22201—7012
(703) 528-9177
Metro: Orange line, Clarendon

HOPPERGRASS by Chris Carlton Brown
“If Mark Twain had writen a murder mystery set in an interracial reform school in Virginia, in the late 1960’s, Hoppergrass would be it.”  William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and Pattern Recogniton.

From debut author Chris Carlton Brown comes a breathtaking literary young adult novel, HOPPERGRASS.  Readers everywhere will be able to connect with the evocative, vivid writing of this emerging new talent.  It is 1969, and Bowser has arrived at The Hill, an institution for delinquent teenage boys. No one is doing much to protect the boys who find themselves there, but Bowser doesn’t expect to stay long. He thinks he might be crazy (and others agree), so he’ll probably be off to the nuthouse soon.  When one of the boys is killed in an accident and it looks like Bowser’s friend Nose is going to be made a scapegoat for the death, it’s up to Bowser, crazy or not, to stand up for the truth.  With language that combines the gritty and the truly graceful, Chris Carlton Brown’s first novel is heartbreaking and unforgettable.

Chris Carlton Brown was a reporter at the Richmond News Leader, built a business career in the Far East, and currently teaches reading to children with learning disabilities. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

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