T.L. Simpson, Accelerant with Rainy Day Books

Celebrate this award-winning journalist and novelist alongside beloved author Adib Khorram in Kansas City! Join Rainy Day Books in-store to discuss Accelerant with author T.L. Simpson and Adib Khorram. This event includes a talk from T.L. and Adib, along with an opportunity to get your book signed and personalized. The Book Accelerant Against the backdrop of wildfires plaguing rural Missouri, two brothers reunited after their family’s separation confront one another across ideological lines, as one faces radicalization by a white supremacist criminal organization, and the other seeks revenge against that same group for attacking his friend’s Pride demonstration. From the Printz Honor-winning author of Cope Field After his best friends are attacked at a Pride demonstration, anime nerd Briar Stokes grabs a length of pipe, dons a Japanese demon mask, and hops on his street bike with one goal: to enact violent revenge against the white supremacists infesting his rural Missouri community. What he doesn’t know is how deep the roots of hate grow, nor how much they’ve entangled his own family. But when his quest for vengeance pits him against his own stepbrother, who faces radicalization by that same hate group, Briar soon learns the hard way that violence doesn’t stop violence... It accelerates it. The Author T. L. Simpson is an award-winning journalist and novelist living in Arkansas. He is currently the editor of his hometown paper. His fiction draws from his experiences growing up in the Ozarks and covering both sports and crime. Simpson lives in the Arkansas River Valley, between the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains, with his wife and four children. The Moderator Adib Khorram is the queer Iranian author of I’ll Have What He’s Having, an instant USA Today bestseller. He is also the author of the young adult novel Darius the Great Is Not Okay, which earned the William C. Morris Debut Award, the Asian/Pacific American Award for Young Adult Literature, and a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor, and was named one of Time magazine’s 100 Best YA Novels of All Time; his other young adult novels Darius the Great Deserves Better, Kiss & Tell, and The Breakup Lists as well as the picture books Seven Special Somethings: A Nowruz Story and Bijan Always Wins, have garnered critical acclaim, starred reviews, and bestsellers. He grew up in Kansas City—the Milan of the Midwest—but he’d rather be in the real thing, sitting on a patio, enjoying an aperitivo. Please Note: There are no refunds for this event. If you are unable to attend, your book will be available for pickup at Rainy Day Books starting the following day. If you are not local, we'll be happy to mail it to you upon request. Thank you for your support! We will hold your event book in-store for a maximum of 6 months following the event. If you have not retrieved your book in that time period, it will be donated.