GRANT BAILIE
Saturday, April 5 at 2 p.m.

After growing up in a secret laboratory, a test tube boy named John Smith tries to make a "normal" life for himself as a mall security guard—all of this in the very mundane community of Mortarville. And it is Mortarville (IG Publishing) that happens to be the title of Grant Bailie's second novel. Here from his Ohio home, he received good praise for his debut, Cloud 8 ("Mad, fascinating and really quite moving" - Publishers Weekly), and should also for this brooding tale of a brewed-up life.

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