Paige Lewis - "Canon"

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Paige Lewis will read from their new novel, Canon. Described by Publisher Penguin Random House as "Two unlikely heroes embark on quests to win God’s favor," Canon is praised by bestselling author John Green as "A scorchingly brilliant, wildly funny, and deeply moving epic," while Karen Russell, bestselling author of The Antidote, says: "An unprecedented page-turner . . . I wish I could spend a thousand more pages with the narrator of Canon, whose keenness, kindness, associative brilliance, storytelling authority, and crow-black humor make every line of this utterly singular novel a surprise and a delight . . . Canon filled me with overwhelming joy, joy that such an extraordinary story exists."

Paige Lewis is the author of the poetry collection Space Struck and coeditor of Another Last Call: Poems on Addiction and Deliverance. Lewis teaches at the University of Iowa; Canon is their first novel.

Tuesday, May 26, 2026 7:00pm to 8:00pm
Prairie Lights Books
15 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, IA 52240
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