Join author Kathryn Kruse to celebrate her book To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone with a conversation, Q&A and signing! Kathryn will be in conversation with Juan Martinez. 

Call it Midwestern Gothic. Call it a book of stories that get a hold of your head and heart. Whatever you call it, To Receive My Services You Must Be Dying and Alone takes us to the edge of lived experience and guides us to look back in wonder at essential elements of humanness: hope, grief, confusion, joy. While the worlds and characters in each of these stories arrive fresh and distinct --- a woman drives through Central Illinois returning lost baggage, accompanied by her mother’s toothless mini-poodle; a couple finds their lives weighed with 3D printings of their fetus after a miscarriage; a rag-tag group spends every day together, up-skilling for promised minimum wage jobs in an abandoned and repurposed pharmacy, the shelves filled with out-dated stock --- we grab hold of a throughline: the book spills over with people building and breaking idols to find love and survival where they can. And we cheer them on at each step.