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Kris Saknussemm / Sea Monkeys
Tuesday February 19, 2013 from 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Booksmith
1644 Haight St
San Francisco, California 94117 Get Directions
From the universally acclaimed cult novelist Kris Saknussemm comes a sixties coming-of-age memoir that is just as revolutionary as his fiction.

Bowling lessons with a hunchback. A bizarre first-grade teacher who hallucinates in class. A tragically innocent family blind-sided by flower power, and the salvation of soul music at a radio station straight out of a Quentin Tarantino version of The Twilight Zone. These are just a few of the luminous characters and conjurings Kris Saknussemm delivers in his kaleidoscopic Sea Monkeys -- the story of his growing up in the counterculture San Francisco Bay Area and
central California in the 1960s.

Known for his genre-bending works Zanesville and Private Midnight, Saknussemm now gives us a highly original take on the nonfiction memoir, in which he shatters the stained glass windows of his father’s church and mixes the pieces with ghost cartoons, the Cronkite contradictions of the Civil Rights Demonstrations, and ads for laxatives during a strange hiatus in American sanity when Sly Stone and Perry Como could both be in the Top 10. Honest, funny, and at times heartbreaking, Sea Monkeys is the no-holds-barred tale of one of our most exciting contemporary authors’ own coming of age, and the perfect follow-up to Zanesville, which Booklist hailed as “one of the most creative, edgy, and entertaining novels spawned in a decade.”

Kris Saknussemm’s books include the poetry collection In the Name of the Father, the novels Enigmatic Pilot, Zanesville, and Private Midnight, and a portfolio book of his paintings titled The Colors of Compulsion.
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