Sean Beaudoin discusses and signs Welcome Thieves

Black humor mixed with pathos is the hallmark of the twelve stories in this adult debut collection from a master writer of comic and inventive YA novels. A young man spends a whole day lying naked on the floor of his apartment, conversing casually with his roommates, pondering the past, considering the lives being lived around him. In the odd and funny, sad yet somehow hopeful conceit of Sean Beaudoin’s story Exposure, are all the elements that make his debut collection, Welcome Thieves, a standout. In twelve virtuosic stories, Beaudoin trains his absurdist’s eye on the ridiculous perplexities of adult life. From muddling through after the apocalypse (Base Omega Has Twelve Dictates) to the knowing smirk of You Too Can Graduate with a Degree in Contextual Semiotics, Beaudoin’s stories are edgy and profane, bittersweet and angry, bemused and sardonic. Yet they’re always tinged with heart. Beaudoin’s novels have been praised for their playfulness and complexity, for the originality and beauty of their language. Those same qualities and much more, are on full display in Welcome Thieves, a book that should find devout fans in readers who worship at the altar of George Saunders, Kurt Vonnegut, and Sam Lipsyte.  (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

Event date: 
Thursday, March 17, 2016 - 7:00pm
Event address: 
Book Soup
8818 Sunset Boulevard
West Hollywood, CA 90069
Welcome Thieves: Stories By Sean Beaudoin Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9781616204570
Availability: Usually arrives at our store within 4-7 days
Published: Algonquin Books - March 1st, 2016