{"id":163729,"date":"2026-06-25T09:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=163729"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:18:48","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:18:48","slug":"go-bananas-with-jack-pendarvis-for-sweet-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/go-bananas-with-jack-pendarvis-for-sweet-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Bananas with Jack Pendarvis for &#8220;Sweet Bananas&#8221;!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em><strong>Wednesday, July 8, 5:30 pm at Off Square Books<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join <strong>Square Books<\/strong> and Emmy Award-winning author and screenwriter <strong>Jack Pendarvis<\/strong> (<strong><em>Adventure Time<\/em><\/strong>) for a special banana-themed event to celebrate his new-to-us novel <em>Sweet Bananas<\/em><strong><em>. <\/em><\/strong>Originally published in 2021 as a limited edition by Canadian publisher <strong>Hingston and Olsen<\/strong>, Square Books has a bunch of copies of the novel on the shelves for the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In honor of this harvest\u2014and Jack&#8217;s birthday\u2014come hear Jack read from <strong><em>Sweet Bananas<\/em><\/strong>, get your hands on a copy before they split, and enjoy some banana-related treats. Peel good vibes only!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can&#8217;t make it? Order a copy <em>Sweet Bananas<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/squarebooks.com\/product\/sweet-bananas-novel-jack-pendarvis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the book<\/strong><br>Boris and Clementine are married. They work from home, watch old movies, and spend an inordinate amount of time looking out the window when they hear a strange noise in the yard. <em>Sweet Bananas <\/em>is the story of a year in their life together, told one day\u2014and one chapter\u2014at a time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A brilliant novel from Emmy award winner Jack Pendarvis (<em>Adventure Time<\/em>), <em>Sweet Bananas <\/em>is ordinary yet ambitious, hilarious yet tender\u2014and one of the truest love stories you\u2019ll ever read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the author<\/strong><br><strong>Jack Pendarvis<\/strong> has written seven books. He won two Emmys for his work on the television show <em><strong>Adventure Time<\/strong><\/em>. He lives in<strong> Oxford, MS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong><br><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, July 8, 5:30 pm at Off Square Books Join Square Books and Emmy Award-winning author and screenwriter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":163730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[14439],"tags":[7732,35201,2428,13759,4,602,35200],"class_list":["post-163729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-books","tag-adventure-time","tag-hingston-and-olsen","tag-jack-pendarvis","tag-off-square-books-2","tag-oxford","tag-square-books","tag-sweet-bananas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/0708-jack-pendarvis-sweet-bananas.png?fit=295%2C295&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163882,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163729\/revisions\/163882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}