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SUMMARY:Elin Hilderbrand
DESCRIPTION:Here’s to Us is an emotional\, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. \nCelebrity chef Deacon Thorpe has always been a force of nature with an insatiable appetite for life. But after that appetite contributes to Deacon’s shocking death in his favorite place on earth\, a ramshackle Nantucket summer cottage\, his (messy\, complicated) family is reeling. Now Deacon’s three wives\, his children\, and his best friend gather on the island he loved to say farewell. The three very different women have long been bitter rivals\, each wanting to claim the primary place in Deacon’s life and his heart. But as they slowly let go of the resentments they’ve held onto for years and remember the good times\, secrets are revealed\, confidences are shared\, and improbable bonds are formed as this unlikely family says goodbye to the man who brought them all together\, for better or worse–and the women he loved find new ways to love again. \nElin Hilderbrand does her best writing on the beaches of Nantucket and on the charming streets of Beacon Hill in Boston.Here’s to Us is her seventeenth novel.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/elin-hilderbrand/
LOCATION:Book Passage San Francisco\, 1 Ferry Building\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94111\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Max Porter w/ Anthony Marra
DESCRIPTION:Here he is\, husband and father\, scruffy romantic\, a shambolic scholar–a man adrift in the wake of his wife’s sudden\, accidental death\, and there are his two sons who\, like him\, struggle in their London apartment to face the unbearable sadness that has engulfed them. The father imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness\, while the boys wander\, savage and unsupervised.\nIn this moment of violent despair they are visited by Crow–antagonist\, trickster\, goad\, protector\, therapist\, and babysitter. This self-described “sentimental bird\,” at once wild and tender\, who “finds humans dull except in grief”\, threatens to stay with the wounded family until they no longer need him. As weeks turn to months and the pain of loss lessens with the balm of memories\, Crow’s efforts are rewarded and the little unit of three begins to recover: Dad resumes his book about the poet Ted Hughes; the boys get on with it\, grow up. \nPart novella\, part polyphonic fable\, and part essay on grief\, Max Porter’s extraordinary work combines compassion and bravura style to dazzling effect. Full of angular wit and profound truths\, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is a startlingly original and haunting debut by a significant new talent. \nMax Porter works in publishing. He lives in South London with his wife and children. Grief Is the Thing with Feathers is his first book. Watch a video teaser and read an excerpt from Grief is the Thing with Feathers. \nAnthony Marra is the author of A Constellation of Vital Phenomena\, which won the National Book Critics Circle’s inaugural John Leonard Prize\, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award in fiction\, and appeared on over twenty year-end lists. Marra’s novel was a National Book Award long list selection as well as a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and France’s Prix Medicis. He received an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop and was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University\, where he teaches as the Jones Lecturer in Fiction. He has lived and studied in Eastern Europe\, and now resides in Oakland.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/max-porter-w-anthony-marra/
LOCATION:DIESEL\, A Bookstore\, 5433 College Ave\, Oakland\, CA\, 94618\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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