Trudeau Vector

So my former professor, Juri Jurjevics' first book is coming out in August. Juri has been tremendous and extremely supportive of me, always offering insightful career advice. I can't wait to read his book. It is called Trudeau Vector and he'll be signing copies at BEA. Here is the blurb about it:

A cold war secret; a potent microbial killer; an impending environmental calamity—all three link up in the black of the Artic night. In THE TRUDEAU VECTOR, Juris Jurjevics has crafted an ingenious and entirely engrossing Artic thriller that superbly depicts the precarious, volatile area where science and politics clash, with potentially disastrous results. In the tradition of Michael Crichton’s THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN and Robert Wilson’s A SMALL DEATH IN LISBON, THE TRUDEAU VECTOR unsettlingly blurs the line between invention and reality in a novel whose richness in detail will leave readers wondering “Could this actually happen?”

It is funny because one day in class he gives us some sample chapters to read of the book, but it has a pseudonym on it. Luckily the entire class liked what we read, we would trash many of the manuscripts he would engrossing. So then he goes on to tell the story of the auction and who bought what rights, etc. It isn't until the end of class, in his modest way, does he tell us he wrote the book. Ah!

Juri is also co-founder of Soho Press. He tells a nice story of how a 24 year-old Edwidge Danticat walked into their offices with a manuscript for Breathe, Eyes, and Memory in her hand. Soho went on to publish Krik? Krak! and The Farming of the Bones.