Join us Tuesday, June 16 at 6:30pm for a special book club gathering at Aimee Pokwatka’s home in Cross River. We will be discussing her latest novel, Accumulation. There will be time to ask questions, plus a tour of the house (and its ghosts) that inspired the book!

This is a zero pressure book club – didn’t quite finish the book? Come anyway.

Hosted by Fran Hauser & Emily Winograd Leonard

Location address given upon Member RSVP

Light refreshments will be available.

Member RSVP required.

This book is available for purchase at Bedford Books! You can also purchase the book on the Bedford Books website here and have it shipped to you.

About the Book
A twisty, searing, conversation-starting novel about a filmmaker-turned-housewife who moves into her dream house and is forced to consider whether it’s the house or herself that is haunted.

When documentary filmmaker turned stay-at-home mom Tennessee Cherish moves into the the dream house her husband bought for her, a brighter future seems to be on the horizon. Even if her husband is frustratingly absent due to his new high-paying job. Even if their two young children begin acting out in strange ways. Even if she feels lonelier than ever.

Distracted by the endless details that come with moving into a new town, a new house, and new schools, Tenn doesn’t notice when odd things begin happening at home. The faucet that runs at all hours. The creepy doll that seems to show up in every room. The human tooth they found in the floorboards.

As the kids’ outbursts and the strange events start to escalate, the family finds themselves increasingly caught in loops, repeating everyday actions with dangerous—and then devastating—effects. Tenn realizes she must find the source of what is haunting her family, before it kills them all.

Taut and twisty, scary and searing, Aimee Pokwatka’s Accumulation lays bare the high price women pay for the promises of domesticity and motherhood, and the many ways in which families can be haunted.

About the Author

Aimee Pokwatka is the author of the genre-bending novels Accumulation, Self-Portrait with Nothing, and The Parliament. Born and raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, she studied anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she helped catalog a collection of archaic-period human skeletal remains. She received her MFA in creative writing from Syracuse University. She has also taught writers of all ages, and served as the editor of Salt Hill Journal and The Newtowner. She is an active member at Yellow Studio, where she can often be found writing in her studio in the attic. She lives in a haunted house in New York with her family.