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TICKETED EVENT: $25
*PROOF OF VACCINATION REQUIRED TO ATTEND
PLEASE NOTE: Per the publisher’s requirement, proof of vaccination status and driver’s license or other valid form of identification will be required to attend this event. This in-person event may take place virtually dependent upon changing health and safety needs.
About the author:
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-seven novels, including The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire.
Her latest novel, Wish You Were Here, follows Diana O’Toole, who is perfectly on track with her career and relationship. She’s not engaged just yet, but she knows her boyfriend, Finn, a surgical resident, is about to propose on their romantic getaway to the Galápagos—days before her thirtieth birthday. But then a virus that felt worlds away has appeared in the city, and on the eve of their departure, Finn breaks the news: It’s all hands on deck at the hospital. He has to stay behind. Reluctantly, she goes on the trip without him.
Almost immediately, Diana’s dream vacation goes awry. The whole island is now under quarantine, and she is stranded until the borders reopen. Slowly, she carves out a connection with a local family when a teenager with a secret opens up to Diana, despite her father’s suspicion of outsiders. In the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection was formed, Diana finds herself examining her relationships, her choices, and herself—and wondering if when she goes home, she too will have evolved into someone completely different.
Each ticket includes a seat at the author’s talk, a signed copy of Wish You Were Here, and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation.
Additional books will be available for purchase courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.
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