Adam Mansbach
Monday, January 28th 2013  7:30pm
Berkeley, CA

http://www.berkeleyarts.org

Adam Mansbach, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the F**k to Sleep, returns with a fearless new novel about a too-wise kid and the father who left him, the price of revenge and the greatest graffiti stunt New York City has ever seen. The narrator of Rage is Back is Kilroy Dondi Vance, an eighteen-year-old mixed-race Brooklynite who deals pot and goes to prep school on scholarship, all while growing up in the shadow of his absentee father Billy Rage, a legendary graffiti writer who disappeared from New York City in 1989 following a public feud with MTA police chief Anastacio Bracken. Now it’s 2005. Bracken is running for mayor of New York City. And who should Dondi discover on a rooftop in Brooklyn but his father, newly returned to the city and ready to settle the score. The return of Rage and the mayoral race of Bracken prompt a reunion of every graffiti writer who mattered in the 1980s as they plan the greatest graffiti stunt New York City has ever seen. Delivering a mind-bending journey through a subterranean world of epic heroes and villains, and moving through the city’s unseen communities, from the tunnel camps of the Mole People to the drug dens of Crown Heights, RAGE IS BACK is many things: a dramatic, hilarious thrill ride and a love letter to New York that introduces the most powerful urban underdog narrator this side of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

Location:
The Marsh Berkeley
2120 Allston Way
Berkeley, CA