Friends! If you haven’t yet seen the news on our social media channels, one of the gnomes (Emily) will be moderating a book chat with local Tucson author Morgan Day at Stacks Book Club this Saturday, April 11, at 6:30pm. Her debut novel is The Oldest Bitch Alive. You can learn more about the event and RSVP here:

About the book:

“Gelsomina is a French Bulldog who leads a routine life in a glass house. One day, she ingests an orb of parasitic worms who make an imperfect home inside her. Approaching death, yet filled with new life, she begins to see everything differently: her attachment to the designer-architect couple with whom she lives; the naive preoccupations of their younger French Bulldog, Zampanò; her feelings for an elusive fox; and the voids within and beyond her. The worms propel Gelsomina to plumb the meaning of her domestic existence and ask if her rebirth lies in the wild unknown outside the panes.

The Oldest Bitch Alive is a polyphonic story of containment refracting across scales. Revolving perspectives meditate on consciousness, theories of everything, multispecies narratives, philosophies of form and the immaterial, and other ways in which matter is composed and consumed. Gelsomina’s introspections culminate in an ecstatic sprint through a natural world she’s never seen, awakening the French Bulldog to the depths of love, reverence, death, and the bound self in dichromatic color.”

Why we’re excited about this book:

As avid readers, it’s rare that we encounter a book that is so strange, so unique, and so beautiful – truly, it’s unlike anything we’ve ever read. And yes… this book is about an aging French bulldog with parasites (and her human owners, and the pup who’s meant to be a companion to her, and the glass house they live in), but it’s also about autonomy, how we experience life, what it means to be contained, what it means to be curious about things outside (or inside?)of ourselves, relationships, how we observe our own lives (or are observed by others?). And ORBS. Also, I never thought I’d love the narrative voice and existential thoughts of a tapeworm… but here we are 😂🪱🪱

EVENT DETAILS:

Date: Saturday, April 11, 2026

Time: 6:30-8pm

Location: Stacks Book Club, Oro Valley

RSVP Here! (We hope to see some of you there!)