Writers' Workshop graduate Delaney Nolan will read from her new novel, Happy Bad, and will be joined in conversation with University of Iowa Associate Professor Jamel Brinkley.

Astra House gives this plot summary of Happy Bad:

"Beatrice works at Twin Bridge, a chronically underfunded residential treatment center in near-future East Texas, teeming with enraged teenage girls on either too many or not enough drugs. On a normal day, it's difficult for Beatrice and the other staff — Arda, Carmen, and...