ASU Book Group: 'The Porcupine of Truth' by Bill Konigsberg

Cover of "The Porcupine of Truth"

Please note that the date for this event has changed to Nov. 28.

The ASU Book Group's November 2018 reading selection is the PEN Center USA Literary Award-winning young-adult book "The Porcupine of Truth" by Bill Konigsberg. The book group is open to all in the ASU community and meets monthly from noon to 1 p.m. in the Piper Writers House on ASU's Tempe campus. Authors are always present. A no-host luncheon follows at the University Club. Attendees at each meeting will be entered into a drawing for a $50 gift certificate! Drawing to be held in April.

Synopsis: Carson Smith is resigned to spending his summer in Billings, Montana, helping his mom take care of his father, a dying alcoholic he doesn't really know. Then he meets Aisha Stinson, a beautiful girl who has run away from her difficult family, and discovers a secret regarding his grandfather, who disappeared without warning or explanation decades before. Together, Carson and Aisha embark on an epic road trip to try and save Carson's dad, restore his fragmented family and discover the "Porcupine of Truth" in all of their lives.

The book, which also won the Stonewall Book Award, is available from amazon.com.

A former sportswriter for the Associated Press and ESPN, Bill Konigsberg graduated from ASU with a Master of Fine Art in creative writing.

The remaining ASU Book Group meetings and selections for 2018—19 are:

The ASU Book Group is sponsored as a community outreach initiative by the Department of English and organized in partnership with the Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing.

Judith Smith
jps@asu.edu
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Piper Writers House