Madrona Books Signs Novelist Kevin Allardice

Madrona Books is thrilled to announce the acquisition of its first title. Kevin Allardice will be publishing Weft with us in late summer of 2023.

The novel follows Bridget, a con artist, and her teen son as they travel to malls across America, posing as casting directors for the newly announced Star Wars prequels. On Halloween weekend of 1997, their pursuit of a mark leads them into a haunted house deep in a gated suburban community. To find her son and get him safely out, Bridget must negotiate the fraught spaces of the haunted house. Increasingly unsure where artifice ends and the phantasmic begins, she falls deeper into her own past and the horrific secrets of her host.

Kevin Allardice is the author of four novels, including Any Resemblance to Actual Persons (Counterpoint, 2013), which was long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. His most recent book is The Ghosts of Bohemian Grove, published by Spuyten Duyvil, and this past summer he was a Jack Hazard Fellow with the New Literary Project. Kevin teaches high school in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Reviewers, booksellers, librarians, and media outlets who would like a review copy of Weft should email info@madronabooks.com