Ryan Rivas reads at the release party for new newest book ‘Lizard People’ Credit: Cover illustration by Angelo Maneage
Ready for a book that might make you uncomfortable? Should it ever be assigned in Florida’s K-12 public schools, Lizard People could be challenged on that basis, but it would take a parent both intelligent enough to unpick the allegory and closed-minded enough to support book-banning, so that’s unlikely. (Teachers, take note!)

Ryan Rivas’ latest release is an icepick of a novella about identity, recovery and self-actualization — anyone who’s dipped a toe into the worlds of therapy or rehab, or anyone reeling in America’s (and most especially Florida’s) current maelstrom around race, needs this read. Rivas presents a portion of Lizard People at Zeppelin Books, followed by a conversation with Vidhu Aggarwal (The Trouble With Humpadori, SPECS).

6 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 23, Zeppelin Books, 885 N. Orange Ave., zeppelinbookstore.com, free.

Zeppelin Books

885 N. Orange Ave., Orlando, FL

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Jessica Bryce Young has been working with Orlando Weekly since 2003, serving as copy editor, dining editor and arts editor before becoming editor in chief in 2016.