All She Wrote Books x Local Author: April Breakfast Club

In April, our Breakfast Club will read Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy. Mark your calendar for April 28th as we gather at La Brasa, located at 124 Broadway in Somerville, to discuss with local author Margot Douaihy! Doors will open at 10:30am, and book club will start at 11:00am. 

Event Highlights:

• Immersive Book Discussion with Author
• A Community of Enthusiastic Readers
• Coffee and pastries from Michette

Tickets are limited to due to capacity at the bookstore, and each ticket will include either:

• 10% off a copy of the breakfast book club pick; or 
• a $5 All She Wrote Books gift card.

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.

About the Book:

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this “unique and confident” debut crime novel (Gillian Flynn).  When Saint Sebastian’s School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding New Orleans community are thrust into chaos.  Patience is a virtue, but punk rocker turned nun Sister Holiday isn’t satisfied to just wait around for officials to return her home and sanctuary to its former peace, instead deciding to unveil the mysterious attacker herself. Her investigation leads her down a twisty path of suspicion and secrets, turning her against colleagues, students, and even fellow Sisters along the way. And to piece together the clues of this high-stakes mystery, she must at last reckon with the sins of her own past.  An exciting start to a bold series that breathes new life into the hard-boiled genre, Scorched Grace is a fast-paced and punchy whodunnit that will keep readers guessing until the very end.

About the Author:

Margot Douaihy, PhD (she/her), is the author of three books of poetry and the queer hardboiled mysteries Blessed Water (2024) and Scorched Grace (2023), both published with Gillian Flynn Books/Zando. Scorched Grace was a USA Today National Bestseller, an Indie Next pick, named a Best Book of 2023 by The New York Times, The Guardian, CrimeReads, and BookPage, and the winner of the Pinckley Prize in Crime Fiction for best debut mystery. Margot is an assistant professor with Emerson College, and she serves as a co-editor of the Cambridge University Press Elements in Crime Narratives Series. Her recent academic research includes "Beat the Clock: Queer Temporality and Disrupting Chrononormativity in Crime Fiction," a NeMLA 2024 paper. The next mystery in her Sister Holiday series, Divine Ruin, will be published in 2025 with Gillian Flynn Books.

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.
• While you are not eating or drinking, we ask that we please mask up during book club.