Geoff Peck - City of Clans

Overview

Join for this incredible author event at The University Club in Saint Paul. Geoff Peck is a writer and creative writing professor at Winona State University.​ His short fiction and poetry have appeared in over twenty publications, and he was also nominated for Best New American Poets after winning the Thomas McGrath Award from The Academy of American Poets. He received his PhD in English & Creative Writing from the University of North Dakota and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh.

Set on the eve of the 2009 G20 Summit protests, City of Clans follows Jeremy Starcevic, a community college student struggling with his identity and sexuality. By day, Jeremy works for a party goods distributor in the heart of the city and attends classes. By night, he drinks to excess and self-sabotages at the urging of friends. As the son of a professional baseball player, Jeremy grew up playing sports and molding himself into a certain type of guy—a type embodied in Jeremy’s best friend and roommate, the hypermasculine Scott Melloy. But when Scott commits an unthinkable act, Jeremy is forced to acknowledge that the friend he idolized is a sexual predator, and his carefully constructed sense of self crumbles.

Jeremy begins a journey of healing and self-reflection that carries him back to his family and his one true friend, Katrina Kovacs, a photography major who opens his eyes to societal issues he’s always ignored. A story of redemption, City of Clans captures the resiliency of the human spirit and explores hidden truths of masculinity, sexuality, and self.