Caroline Leavitt and Chris Bohjalian: A Book Club Evening

EVENT: A Book Club Evening, featuring Caroline Leavitt, author of the novel Pictures of You, and Chris Bohjalian, New York Times bestselling novelist and author of the new book Secrets of Eden. Both authors will appear together to discuss their latest works.

CAROLINE LEAVITT is the author of eight novels: Girls In Trouble, Coming Back To Me, Living Other Lives, Into Thin Air, Family, Jealousies, Lifelines and Meeting Rozzy Halfway. A book critic for The Boston Globe and People, she won a 2005 honorable mention, Goldenberg Prize for Fiction from the Bellevue Literary Review, for "Breathe," a portion of her new novel, Pictures of You. Caroline Leavitt lives in Hoboken, New Jersey, New York City's unofficial sixth borough, with her husband, the writer Jeff Tamarkin, and their teenage son Max.

CHRIS BOHJALIAN is the critically acclaimed author of twelve novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Skeletons at the Feast, The Double Bind, and Midwives. His novel, Midwives, was a number one New York Times bestseller and a selection of Oprah’s Book Club. His work has been translated into more than 25 languages and twice became movies (Midwives and Past the Bleachers). He lives in Vermont with his wife and daughter.

DATE/TIME: Wednesday, February 9, 2011 at 6:30 PM.

LOCATION: Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch, Truman Forum.

ADMISSION PACKAGE: This event is open to the public, however reservations are required to attend. Call 816-701-3407 to make reservations. Seating is limited. Authors will sign books purchased from Rainy Day Books before or at this event.

EVENT FORMAT: Each author will discuss their book, followed by a question and answer session with the audience. A booksigning will follow the program. Authors will sign books purchased from Rainy Day Books before or at this event.

Book List

Pictures of You (Paperback)

By Caroline Leavitt

$13.95

ISBN-13: 9781565126312
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1/2011

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Two women running away from their marriages collide on a foggy highway, killing one of them. The survivor, Isabelle, is left to pick up the pieces, not only of her own life, but of the lives of the devastated husband and fragile son that the other woman, April, has left behind.

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Secrets of Eden (Paperback)

By Chris Bohjalian

$15.00

ISBN-13: 9780307394989
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Broadway, 2/2011

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From the bestselling author of The Double Bind, Midwives, and Skeletons at the Feast comes a novel of shattered faith, intimate secrets, and the delicate nature of sacrifice.

"There," says Alice Hayward to Reverend Stephen Drew, just after her baptism, and just before going home to the husband who will kill her that evening and then shoot himself. Drew, tortured by the cryptic finality of that short utterance, feels his faith in God slipping away and is saved from despair only by a meeting with Heather Laurent, the author of wildly successful, inspirational books about . . . angels. 

Heather survived a childhood that culminated in her own parents' murder-suicide, so she identifies deeply with Alice’s daughter, Katie, offering herself as a mentor to the girl and a shoulder for Stephen – who flees the pulpit to be with Heather and see if there is anything to be salvaged from the spiritual wreckage around him.
But then the State's Attorney begins to suspect that Alice's husband may not have killed himself. . .and finds out that Alice had secrets only her minister knew.

Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives.  Once again Chris Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems.  As one character remarks, “Believe no one.  Trust no one.  Assume all of our stories are suspect.” 

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