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Join us on Zoom for a conversation with Carter Bays, co-creator of "How I Met Your Mother", and actor Kyle MacLachlan.
This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registration and an email address are required to receive the link to participate.
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About the author:
Carter Bays is the co-creator of the Emmy-winning series How I Met Your Mother. Originally from Shaker Heights, he now lives in California with his wife and three children. The Mutual Friend is his first novel.
It’s the summer of 2015, and Alice Quick needs to get to work. She’s twenty-eight years old, grieving her mother, barely scraping by as a nanny, and freshly kicked out of her apartment. If she can just get her act together and sign up for the MCAT, she can start chasing her dream of becoming a doctor . . . but in the Age of Distraction, the distractions are so distracting. There’s her tech millionaire brother’s religious awakening. His picture-perfect wife’s emotional breakdown. Her chaotic new roommate’s thirst for adventure. And, of course, there’s the biggest distraction of all: Love.
From within the story of one summer in one woman’s life, an epic tale is unearthed, spanning continents and featuring a tapestry of characters tied to one another by threads both seen and unseen. Filled with all the warmth, humor, and heart that gained How I Met Your Mother its cult following, The Mutual Friend captures in sparkling detail the chaos of contemporary life, a life lived simultaneously in two different worlds—the physical one and the one behind our screens—and reveals how connected we all truly are.
Carter Bays will be in conversation with actor actor Kyle MacLachlan, whose highly acclaimed TV roles include the sophisticated soap operas Desperate Housewives, Sex & the City, and the inspirational improv Portlandia. MacLachlan won the Golden Globe for Best Actor for his iconic performance as Dale Cooper in Twin Peaks, and was nominated for two Emmy Awards. In 2021, he portrayed President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the international Emmy Award winning limited series Atlantic Crossing.
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