Join us for a reading and book signing with mystery author Mia P. Manansala as part of Pygmalion 2022! This author visit is generously sponsored by The Urbana Free Library Foundation.
Mia P. Manansala (she/her) is a certified book coach and the author of Arsenic and Adobo, which garnered starred reviews from Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Shelf Awareness, and has won multiple awards. The New York Times stated, “Manansala peppers the narrative with enough red herrings to keep readers from guessing the killer, but the strength of the novel is how family, food and love intertwine in meaningful and complex ways,” which are common themes in her writing. The sequel, Homicide and Halo-Halo, is out now.
She is the winner of the 2022 RUSA Reading List for Mystery, 2021 Agatha Award for Best First Novel, 2021 Chicago Reader’s Best New Novel by a Chicagoan, 2018 Hugh Holton Award, the 2018 Eleanor Taylor Bland Crime Fiction Writers of Color Award, the 2017 William F. Deeck - Malice Domestic Grant for Unpublished Writers, and the 2016 Mystery Writers of America/Helen McCloy Scholarship.
A lover of all things geeky, Mia spends her days procrasti-baking, playing JRPGs and dating sims, reading cozy mysteries and diverse romance, and cuddling her dogs Gumiho and Max Power.
Books will be available to purchase at the reading.
This event is generously funded by The Urbana Free Library Foundation.
Conveniently located at the corner of Race and Green in downtown Urbana.
