Left Bank Books presents New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White, who will discuss the furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors Hell Followed With Us with a sneak peek to his next book The Spirit Bares Its Teeth in our store on June 27th at 6pm! Join us in the store or on our YouTube Live Page.

Order signed and personalized copies of Hell Followed With Us or preorder The Spirit Bares Its Teeth from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores! If you are unable to make it in person, leave a personalization note in your order.

Andrew Joseph White is a queer, trans author from Virginia, where he grew up falling in love with monsters and wishing he could be one too. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University in 2022 and has a habit of cuddling random street cats. Andrew writes about trans kids with claws and fangs, and what happens when they bite back.

A furious, queer debut novel about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors.

"A long, sustained scream to the various strains of anti-transgender legislation multiplying around the world like, well, a virus." --The New York Times

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him--the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world's population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can't get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.

But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC's leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji's darkest secret: the cult's bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.

Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick's terms...until he discovers the ALC's mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation.

A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year
A William C. Morris Award Finalist
A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year
A Booklist Editors' Choice Selection
A BCCB Blue Ribbon Book
Named to the ALA Rainbow Roundtable's Rainbow Book List

"A defining voice of our generation." -H.E. Edgmon, author of The Witch King

"Hands down the best YA horror book I've read." ­-Aden Polydoros, author of The City Beautiful

"A chimera of horror, romance, and something stranger." -Rose Szabo, author of What Big Teeth

"A timely and riveting tale." -Ray Stoeve, author of Between Perfect and Real