Old Capitol Books hosts Isabella Ides, author of the novel White Monkey Chronicles, on Sunday, November 4, 2pm-4pm. She'll read selections from her new book, a contemporary fable about a rogue order of nuns who are raising an undocumented deity. (Expect a feminist insurgency! A persecution of Cardinals! A literary feast!)

A rogue order of nuns, tucked away in Humboldt County, are raising an abandoned deity. The Sisterhood, long persecuted by the patriarchs of the Great Church and decimated by a plague of prayer eaters, is on the verge of extinction when a mysterious white monkey appears in a snowstorm. It is a holy night like no other--complete with a wandering star, three disreputable magi, and an infant in a cardboard box.