Tuesday
October 27
The Writer’s Block Bookstore
316 North Park Ave
Winter Park, FL 32789
Thursday
October 29
5:30pm
The Newberry Library
60 West Walton St
Chicago, IL 60610
Wednesday
November 4
Malaprops Bookstore
55 Haywood St
Asheville, NC 28801
Thursday
November 12
Penguin Bookshop
417 Beaver St
Sewickley, PA 15143
Friday
November 13
Stanza Books
508 Main St
Beacon, NY 12508
Friday
November 20
Black Walnut Books
71 Lawrence St Studio 117
Glens Falls, NY 12801
Saturday
November 21
2pm
Parthenon Books
333 S. Salina St
Syracuse, NY 13202

select recordings


“Because America has an idea of what it means to be Native, anytime anything I’m writing reflects that, I feel like I’m cosplaying Indigenousness. So I wrote that fear into the book.” -Aaron John Curtis, Poets & Writers First Fiction 2025


“That’s a Mohawk woman for you, she’s going to dance with you one moment and deck you the next.” -Aaron John Curtis, Bay Area Book Festival


“In the book version everyone in the family has a copy of the picture of Tóta dancing. In reality, that picture was buried with her.” -Aaron John Curtis, author appearance at Book Soup


“I don’t need my art in the world to change the world, I create art to change myself.” -Aaron John Curtis, the Mayo Clinic’s Read.Talk.Grow. Podcast


“We’re still here.” -Aaron John Curtis, author appearance at The Lynx