Dark Star Books

Dark Star Books is pleased to host a book-signing by Shauna Roberts, a Beavercreek native who is the author of several books both fictional and nonfictional, on Saturday March 27th from 2-4pm at our store in downtown Yellow Springs.

Ms. Roberts will sign copies of her new book Like Mayflies in a Stream, a retelling of the ancient Epic of Gilgamesh.

Among those who have praised the book are Kim Stanley Robinson, a winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Locus and World Fantasy awards, who writes that Like Mayflies in a Stream is “an exciting and very human story, set in a fascinating time and place.” New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries says that “Shauna Roberts depicts Ancient Sumer in such believable detail that you can practically hear the rushing of the Euphrates and feel the hot desert air on your skin,” and Richard R. Zettler, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization at the University of Pennsylvania, observes, “Roberts deftly fleshes out tales of the hero-king Gilgamesh, who lived ca. 2900 BCE, bringing the people and places in that epic to life. She shows that a story your teachers described as “timeless” does, in fact, bridge the ancient and modern. The setting may be alien, but the people and their emotions are familiar and intense!”

We hope you can join us for this special event. For more information about the book-signing, please email books@darkstarbookstore.com or call us at (937) 767-9400.

To learn more about Shauna Roberts and her writing, please visit www.shaunaroberts.com .