Reading by Thomas Mullen '96

Thomas Mullen '96, the author of The Last Town on Earth (which was named Best Debut Novel of 2006 by USA Today, was a Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year, a New York Times Editor's Choice, and was awarded the James Fenimore Cooper Prize for excellence in historical fiction), will be giving a book reading/signing at Joseph Beth Booksellers in Lyndhurst on Wednesday, February 24 at 7pm on his new book, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers.

For more information about the event, visit Joseph Beth Booksellers.

Joseph-Beth Booksellers
Legacy Village
24519 Cedar Road
Lyndhurst, OH 44124
(216) 691-7000

A 1996 Oberlin alum, he majored in English and History, worked in (and received a stylish wardrobe from) the subterranean Oberlin Seniors Thrift Store, and DJed a 4 AM jazz show that surely no one listened to. During his senior year he committed the very un-Oberlin act of asking out a young woman he'd never spoken to before, when the two of them happened to cross paths in the incredibly romantic parking lot of Dascomb Hall. He and she are now married and live in Atlanta with their two sons.

In award-winning author Thomas Mullen's evocative new novel, the highly anticipated follow-up to his acclaimed debut, The Last Town on Earth, we follow the Depression-era adventures of Jason and Whit Fireson-bank robbers known as the Firefly Brothers by the press, the authorities, and an adoring public that worships their acts as heroic counter-punches thrown at a broken system.

Now it appears they have met their end in a hail of bullets. Jason and Whit's lovers-Darcy, a wealthy socialite, and Veronica, a hardened survivor-struggle between grief and an unyielding belief that the Firesons are still alive. While they and the Firesons' stunned mother and straight-arrow brother wade through conflicting police reports and press accounts, wild rumors spread that the bandits are at large. Through it all, the Firefly Brothers remain as charismatic, unflappable, and as mythical as the American Dream itself, racing to find the women they love and make sense of a world in which all has come unmoored.

Complete with kidnappings and gangsters, heiresses and speakeasies, The Many Deaths of the Firefly Brothers is an imaginative and spirited saga about what happens when you are hopelessly outgunned-and a masterly tale of hardship, redemption, and love that transcends death.