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Author TJ Klune discuss his newest book, the supernatural road trip thriller "The Bones Beneath My Skin" with Kim Fu.

"The Bones Beneath My Skin" is a spine-tingling standalone novel―a supernatural road-trip thriller featuring an extraordinary young girl and her two unlikely protectors on the run from cultists and the government.

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TJ Klune is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling, Lambda Literary Award-winning author of "The House in the Cerulean Sea", "The Extraordinaries", and more. Being queer himself, Klune believes it's important—now more than ever—to have accurate, positive queer representation in stories.

Kim Fu is the author of two novels, a collection of poetry, and most recently, the story collection "Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century", winner of the Washington State Book Award, the Pacific Northwest Book Award, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, as well as a finalist for the Giller Prize, the Ignyte Awards, the Shirley Jackson Awards, and the Saroyan International Prize. Stories in this collection have been selected for Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy and Best of the Net, performed on "Levar Burton Reads" and "Selected Shorts", and optioned for television and film. Their third novel, "The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts", is forthcoming from Tin House in 2026. Fu lives in Seattle.

Introduction by Charlie Hunts, Charlie's Queer Books.

Event produced by the Seattle Public Library, Charlie's Queer Books. Sponsors: The Seattle Public Library Foundation and the Gary and Connie Kunis Foundation. Media sponsor: The Seattle Times.