Blankets meets Pet Sematary in the long-awaited comeback from the author of The End of the Fxxxing World and I Am Not Okay With This, a crossover horror story set in the early ’90s in which a desperate suburban teen brings his mother back from the dead.

Josh Mort is a 16-year-old nerd living in a small American town in the early 1990s with his checked-out father and his younger brother, Pete. He has a best friend, Greta, whom he secretly loves, and a serial bully, Corey, who won’t leave him alone. His pregnant mother, Lindsay, died the year before, officially in a car accident, but her past suggests otherwise. While burying his cat in the woods behind the local cemetery, Josh discovers a mysterious old book of black magic, including a spell to revive the dead.

Dripping in grunge atmosphere, Ex Utero mines familiar territory for fans of Forsman’s previous bestsellers: raw adolescence, young romance, slowly building tension, and small cracks in reality, all with a perfectly controlled touch of the fantastic. It is Forsman’s most accomplished work to date, a horror story that masks an exploration of family trauma and of reconciling a complex relationship with a parent after their death.

Join Forsman and writer/educator Timothy Callahan to discuss the book, which is also our Graphic Novel Book Club selection.

Can’t make the event? Pre-order a copy of Ex Utero and we’ll get your book signed for you.

About the Graphic Novel Book Club
In the past 40 years, comics have gone from an underground, alternative, and niche concern to being used as a tool for learning in primary schools across the country and critiqued in universities the world over. Many of us first experience “reading” images in the sequential format of graphic novels before ever entering a museum. Join our quarterly book club centered around the art of the graphic novel.