BERLIN BOOK LAUNCH: Freakslaw by Jane Flett

Enter the Freakslaw – a travelling funfair populated by deviant queers, a contortionist witch, the most powerful fortune teller, and other architects of mayhem. It doesn’t take long for the Freakslaw folk to infiltrate Pitlaw’s grey world, where the town’s teenagers – none more so than Ruth and Derek – are seduced by neon charms and the possibility of escape.

But beneath it all, these newcomers are harbouring a darker desire: revenge. And as tensions reach fever pitch between the stoic locals and the dazzling intruders, a violence that’s been simmering for centuries is about to be unleashed…

Described by Chelsea G. Summers as “the glittery punk offspring of Katherine Dunn’s Geek Love and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus”, Freakslaw is a queer literary horror about chosen family and the risks it takes to become the person you want to be.
Jane Flett will be in conversation with Sarah Van Bonn about toxic masculinity, maximalist joy, and the importance of queer excess. The night will feature an opening reading from the incomparable Ambika Thompson, and end with an audience Q&A and book signing. Books will be for sale from our favourite bookshop, Curious Fox!

• The event will be held in English.