An Evening With Author Jeff Chu

Schedule

Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

840 S 17th St, Lincoln, NE, United States, Nebraska 68508 | Lincoln, NE

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Cultivating Hope.
Finding Belonging.
Making Sense of the Nonsensical.
Join best selling author Jeff Chu in conversation with Pat Leach, host of Nebraska Public Media’s All About Books, as they explore these powerful themes behind Jeff’s new book Good Soil: The Education of an Accidental Farmhand.
Reception to follow with an opportunity to meet the author and get your book signed!
A National Best Seller, Good Soil is a tribute to friendship, the sacred bond we share with the natural world, and the ways we grow in the unlikeliest of places.
Jeff Chu is an award-winning journalist and editor-at-large of Travel + Leisure. Chu is a former Time staff writer and Fast Company editor whose work has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and Modern Farmer. He lives with his husband, Tristan, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Pat Leach is the host of Nebraska Public Media’s All About Books and is the former director of Lincoln City Libraries.
Ready to check out or purchase a book?
Lincoln City Libraries have books ready to be checked out, or purchase a book through our local bookstore partner Francie & Finch Bookshop (130 S 13th St., Lincoln, Neb.) or another local book seller.

FREE ADMISSION
To learn more, and reserve your seat visit FPCLincoln.org/JeffChu

Hosted by the Good Soil Task Force, a subcommittee of the First Presbyterian Church Hospitality Committee
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