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Benedict Nguyễn in conversation with Serena Zets
Join the Library and Loyalty Bookstores for a celebration of one of the most anticipated, fantastic satires in years! Hot Girls with Balls author Benedict Nguyễn will be joined by journalist Serena Zets for a conversation on queerness, humor, and creativity in its many forms.
Books will be for sale at the event.
About the Book
In this outrageous and deeply serious satire, two star indoor volleyball players juggle unspoken jealousies in their off-court romance ahead of their rival teams’ first rematch in a year
Six is 6′7″, scheming to rejoin the starting lineup, and barely checks her phone. Green is 6′1″, always building her brand, and secretly jealous of her more famous girlfriend. Together, they’re going where no Asian American trans woman has gone before: the men’s pro indoor volleyball league. Our hot girls with balls just thought playing with the boys would spare them some controversy . . . haha.
In between their rival teams’ away games across the globe, Six and Green stay connected on SpaceTime and selflessly broadcast their romance to fans on their weekly Instagraph live show. After a long season, they’ll finally reunite for the championship tournament, the first to accommodate in-person fans since the COVIS pandemic struck the world a year ago. Just as they enter an airtight bro bubble of the world’s best, they’re faced with a crisis that demands an indisputably humiliating task: make a public statement online.
Can Green stock up enough clout for her post-ball future? Can Six girlboss her team’s seniority politics? Can they both take a time-out to just grieve? Their rabid fans and horny haters await their next move. We’re all just desperate for a whiff of the sweaty feminine energy that makes that ball thwack with such spectacular force.
About the Author
BENEDICT NGUYỄN is a dancer and gym buff. Between pistol squats and muscle-ups, she works as a creative producer in live performance. She’s written for The Baffler, BOMB, Los Angeles Review of Books, Vanity Fair, The Brooklyn Rail, The Margins, and other publications. In 2022, she published nasty notes, a redacted email zine on freelance labor. Hot Girls with Balls is her first novel.
About the Conversation Partner
SERENA ZETS is an essayist and journalist in Washington, D.C. by way of Appalachia. They are a regular contributor at Washington City Paper and write weekly for 730DC. They've received fellowships from Just Media and Zenith Cooperative to support their writing about D.C.'s social movements.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Author Talk |
