
THE THROWAWAYS: Greta Kelly in conversation with Erica Ruth Neubauer
Monday, October 19, 2026 · 6:30 PM CDT · Blue House Books · Kenosha, WI
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“Gilmore Girls” meets FX’s “The Americans” in “The Throwaways”, a page-turning romp about a family on the run by Wisconsin author Greta Kelly. When Iris Calloway is outed as a former spy, three generations of Calloway women will have to put banter-filled family dysfunction aside to escape the spies hunting them down. Generational drama has never been so fun! Join Greta at Blue House Books on Monday, October 19th, at 6:30 p.m. where she will be discussing “The Throwaways” with Erica Ruth Neubauer (“Two Bodies Are Better Than One”), answering questions from the audience, and signing books! This event is ticketed, check out the details and grab your ticket here: https://withfriends.co/event/28974520 ABOUT THE THROWAWAYS: The Calloway women are notorious for three things: Olympic-level banter, an inexplicable fear of dolls, and secrets. And one of these things is going to get them killed. Aster Calloway only sold her grandmother’s Fabergé music box on eBay to finance her mom’s mayoral campaign. It’s not like Poppy Calloway has any real business running for office, but the only other candidate is her book-banning high school nemesis—and she’s in the lead. But what Aster doesn’t realize is that selling the heirloom has toppled the house of lies her grandmother, Iris, has been living in for the past forty years. Because hidden inside that jewel-encrusted music box was a list of names—names that protected defected KGB operative Iris, her daughter, and her granddaughter. Now the list is gone, and a creepy doll is on Poppy’s doorstep, which can only mean that the list is in play…and the three most dangerous spies in the world are on the hunt: The one who broke Iris’s heart. The one who gave her Poppy. And the one who wants all the other spies, and especially those bickering Calloway women, dead. ABOUT GRETA KELLY: Greta Kelly is a podcaster and author of several critically-acclaimed fantasy novels as well a debut spy thriller, “The Throwaways”. She loves…
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