{"id":88436,"date":"2020-06-02T15:42:25","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=88436"},"modified":"2020-06-02T15:44:36","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T20:44:36","slug":"square-books-hosts-virtual-event-with-patrick-ness-wednesday-june-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-hosts-virtual-event-with-patrick-ness-wednesday-june-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books Jr Hosts Virtual Event with Patrick Ness Wednesday June 3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Patrick Ness<\/strong> is the author of ten novels, including his\u00a0<em>New York Times<\/em> bestselling\u00a0<em>The Rest of Us Just Live He<\/em>re, the Chaos Walking trilogy,\u00a0<em>More Than This<\/em>,\u00a0<em>A Monster Calls<\/em>, which was made into a major motion picture with a screenplay adaptation by Patrick himself,\u00a0<em>Release<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>And The Ocean Was Our Sky<\/em>. Born in Virginia, Patrick lives in London. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patrickness.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.patrickness.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Patrick-Ness-226x300-1.jpg?resize=226%2C300\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88437\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Join event coordinator <strong>Sami Thomason<\/strong> in conversation with New York Times bestselling author Patrick Ness on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/squarebooksjr\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Instagram Live<\/a>\u00a0@SquareBooksJr\u00a0 to discuss his new book,\u00a0<em><strong>Burn<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On a cold Sunday evening in early 1957, Sarah Dewhurst waited with her father in the parking lot of the Chevron gas station for the dragon he\u2019d hired to help on the farm\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sarah Dewhurst and her father, outcasts in their little town of Frome, Washington, are forced to hire a dragon to work their farm, something only the poorest of the poor ever have to resort to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dragon, Kazimir, has more to him than meets the eye, though. Sarah can\u2019t help but be curious about him, an animal who supposedly doesn\u2019t have a soul but who is seemingly intent on keeping her safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because the dragon knows something she doesn\u2019t.\u00a0He has arrived at the farm with a prophecy on his mind.\u00a0A prophecy that involves a deadly assassin, a cult of dragon worshippers, two FBI agents in hot pursuit\u2014and somehow, Sarah Dewhurst herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><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\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Ness is the author of ten novels, including his\u00a0New York Times bestselling\u00a0The Rest of Us Just Live<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":88414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[16509,16508,602],"class_list":["post-88436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-burn","tag-patrick-ness","tag-square-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/2020-06-02-Patrick-Ness-Burn.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88436","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=88436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}