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Kick off Read & Run Chicago's Fall 2025 season with our September Book Club Run of Death in the Cards by Chicago-based writer Mia P. Manansala!
This cozy young adult mystery features badass Lane Tech student Danika Dizon, a tarot card-reading, martial-arts wielding amauter detective with a strong sense of herself and her Filipino culture.
At this event, we're hosting a nearly four-mile guided run with several stops with Read & Run Chicago guide Leslie Hiquiana through the streets of Lakeview and Roscoe Village that highlights both Filipino culture in Chicago and Danika's unwavering determination to solve a disappearance and even a murder.
After the run, we'll chat with author Mia P. Manansala and sample Lindsey's Ice Cream, unique and mouthwatering ice cream flavors inspired by Asian cuisine, using locally sourced ingredients and sustainable packaging. Copies of Death in the Cards and other related titles will be available for purchase through our bookstore partner Restoried Bookshop.
Since we bring books to life, you can also add on a tarot card reading with Kayla Scanlan, either before/after the guided run.
We strongly encourage pre-reading for our monthly Book Club Runs. Grab your copy of Death in the Cards from your local library branch, purchase online through our Bookshop.org affiliate page, or purchase in-person from AAPI Albany Park bookstore Restoried Bookshop.
This event is teen friendly, so parents: please feel free to bring your YA lovers of all ages.