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Book Soup and the City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Reads program present: Michael Imperioli discussing and signing his debut novel "The Perfume Burned His Eyes"

Matthew is a sixteen-year-old living in Jackson Heights, Queens, in 1976. After he loses his two most important male role models, his father and grandfather, his mother uses her inheritance to uproot Matthew and herself to a posh apartment building in Manhattan. Although only three miles away from his boyhood home, "the city" is a completely new and strange world to Matthew. Matthew soon befriends (and becomes a quasi-assistant to) Lou Reed, who lives with his transgender girlfriend Rachel in the same building. The drug-addled, artistic/shamanic musician eventually becomes an unorthodox father figure to Matthew, who finds himself head over heels for the mysterious Veronica, a wise-beyond-her-years girl he meets at his new school. Written from the point of view of Matthew at age eighteen, two years after the story begins, the novel concludes with an epilogue in the year 2013, three days after Lou Reed's death, with Matthew in his fifties." - Akashic Books

Tickets: $28 (+tax) (includes one copy of The Perfume Burned His Eyes):  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/michael-imperioli-discusses-signs-his-debut-the-perfume-burned-his-eyes-tickets-43373390980

The City of West Hollywood’s WeHo Arts program (www.weho.org/arts) presents WeHo Reads, a series at the West Hollywood Library relating to literature and reading. Individual WeHo Reads programs are co-sponsored or co-presented by the West Hollywood Library, the Friends of the West Hollywood Library, and Book Soup.

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