Paperbark Book Club: May Session with George Kemp

Join Paperbark Merchants in-conversation with George Kemp (via Zoom) to discuss his debut novel, Soft Serve.

Stuck in a regional McDonald’s, as bushfires close in, three twenty-somethings and their dead friend’s mum all face a reckoning. Fern longs for Ethan, Ethan longs for Jacob, and Jacob struggles to long for anything. Meanwhile, Pat just wants her grief to ease up.

Soft Serve proves that small-town lives are huge, and that anyone can get stuck in limbo between their past and their hoped-for future. From celebrated playwright and actor George Kemp comes this charming and poignant novel: it’s drive-thru Chekhov … full of wit and heart.

Doors open from 5pm, in-conversation commences at 6pm in The Gold Room.