Bookshop Santa Cruz presents: Christopher Moore | ANIMA RISING

ABOUT THE EVENT + TICKETS:

• This in-person event will include a book talk with the author, plus audience Q&A. The event will run approximately one hour and will be followed by a book signing.

• Tickets include ALL taxes and fees; package options include entry for 1 or 2 people, plus a complimentary hardcover edition of the book.

• Please note: Each admission package contains separate barcodes for individual entry and your complimentary book.

  • So, that's 2 ticket barcodes in a single-entry package; 3 ticket barcodes in a double-entry package). The book has its own code so that you can pick it up early, beginning on 5/13, its release date, if you want to!

• Tickets are final sale and do not qualify for Readers Club credit. 

Thank you! We can't wait to see you at the event!

ABOUT THE BOOK + AUTHOR: 

From New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore comes ANIMA RISING, a hilariously deranged tale of a mad scientist, a famous painter, and an undead woman’s electrifying journey of self-discovery.

Vienna, 1911. Gustav Klimt, the most famous painter in the Austrian Empire, the darling of Viennese society, spots a woman’s nude body in the Danube canal. He knows he should summon a policeman, but he can’t resist stopping to make a sketch first. And as he draws, the woman coughs. She’s alive!

Back at his studio, Klimt and his model-turned-muse Wally tend to the formerly-drowned girl. She’s nearly feral and doesn’t remember who she is, or how she came to be floating in the canal. Klimt names her Judith, after one of his most famous paintings, and resolves to help her find her memory.

With a little help from Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, Judith recalls being stranded in the arctic one hundred years ago, locked in a crate by a man named Victor Frankenstein, and visiting the Underworld. So how did she get here? And why are so many people chasing her, including Geoff, the giant croissant-eating devil dog of the North?

Poor Things meets Bride of Frankenstein in Anima Rising, Christopher Moore’s most ingenious (and probably most hilarious) novel yet.

Christopher Moore is the author of eighteen previous novels, including Razzmatazz, Shakespeare for Squirrels, Noir, Secondhand Souls, Sacré Bleu, Fool, and Lamb. He lives in San Francisco, California