AS THE RAIN FALLS Book Release Party

GOLDEN DAGGER WELCOMES: AS THE RAIN FALLSBook Release PartyBy: Samuel PlaucheLive Reading + Musical Performances by Cait ArqFREE // 21+About: As The Rain Falls Snap, a young man of nineteen, struggles to live on the gloomy and wet streetcorners and bus stops of Seattle. As his intake of narcotics readily increases, hedaydreams of getting clean, and imagines what a life without the constand drug usewould look like for him and his girlfriend, Chard. Over the course of a week, Snapfantasizes and attempts to quit the multitude of drugs he uses and fix up his life so theremay be a future for himself and Chard.Meanwhile, in the cosmos, planetary beings play at romance as Mother Nature,The Sun, and The Moon navigate the complexities of being polyamourous, to varyingdegrees of success.An homage to his hometown of Seattle and the greater Washington state ingeneral, Plauches novel As The Rain Falls explores love, trauma, addiction, andpoverty and where all of those things intersect. Be it beings in the stars or peoplestruggling to get off the floor they slept on the night before, As The Rain Falls acts as areminder to think about what anyone could be going through, and to offer upcompassion within ones relationships.—–This event is 21 and over. Any patron unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 21 years of age will not be admitted to this event.