Book launch of ‘Take Out the Jocks: a feminist revenge comedy’

Join Michael Nest for the launch of his new novel ‘Take Out the Jocks: a feminist revenge comedy’, with Linda Morra, the host and writer of Getting Lit With Linda. The novel explores what would happen if the people afraid to go out at night were young men, not young women. It follows Kate, Carly, and Seyram, friends since childhood, who are outraged by the acquittal of a local rapist and frustrated at the lack of progress with the #MeToo movement in their community. They decide to reverse gender freedoms by targeting the town’s jocks in a series of ever-more brazen attacks. On the case are local police, who can’t conceive that middle-aged moms could be capable of such things. But also on their tail are the FBI and a local journalist who suspect their involvement. Set against the backdrop of Trump’s America in 2018, the novel is a dark comedy of female vengeance that blows open literally a small American town. Michael Nest lives in Montreal. His previous book, Cold Case North: the search for James Brady and Absolom Halkett was shortlisted for Crime Writers of Canada’s Best Nonfiction Crime Book (2021) and won SaskBooks’ Creative Publishing Award (2022).