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SMHS graduate Kirsten Miller to read from new teen novel Friday at City Lights
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Kirsten Miller, who grew up in Sylva and now lives in New York and Paris, will be at City Lights on Friday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m. to read from her new book for young adults, titled “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City.”
The book is the first in a new series and tells the story of a 12-year-old Manhattan girl who discovers a vast underground city underneath her neighborhood. After Ananka Fishbein ventures into an enormous sinkhole near her New York apartment, her life changes forever.
A million rats, delinquent Girl Scouts out for revenge, and a secret city below the streets of Manhattan open her eyes to a new world under her feet. Along the way, she meets the mysterious Kiki Strike, a black-clad, Vespa-riding, cafe-au-lait drinking girl who seems to appear and disappear like magic. Six girls join together to form a crime-fighting underground spy squad that requires them to use a variety of special skills, from lock picking to mechanical engineering.
A 1990 Smoky Mountain High School graduate and the daughter of Al and Katherine Miller of Sylva, Miller left Jackson County to attend college in New York, where she later became an advertising executive. (Her first name is actually “Kristen,” but Miller has altered it slightly and uses Kirsten Miller as a pen name.) She is currently based in Paris, where she is working on the second “Kiki Strike” novel.
Miller will read from the book and answer questions from the audience, and young adult readers are encouraged to attend, said City Lights publicist Jessica Philyaw.
For more information or to reserve a signed copy, call City Lights at 586-9499.
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