An Evening with Author Wally Lamb

Bestselling author, Wally Lamb, joins us here in Pittsburgh to discuss his latest literary masterpiece, The River is Waiting.

Grab your tickets below and join us on June 4th!

• Doors will open at 6:45pm, the event will start at 7:30pm.
• Every Book Bundle and Book Bundle+1 ticket will include one, signed, paperback copy of The River is Waiting and will be available for pick-up at check-in for the event. General admission tickets do not include a book.
• Additional copies will be available for sale at the event, in addition to a limited number of copies of Lamb's prior work.
• For those who wish, you will be able to get your book personalized after the event. You may get three total books signed, but the author will only personalize one of the three books. All books purchased from Riverstone at the event will be pre-signed.
• Your email confirmation will serve as your ticket. You may print it out and bring it or show us the confirmation on your phone at check-in.
• Event tickets are non-refundable within 7 days before the event (5/28 and later).
• Ticketholders unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their books at either store location or have it shipped to them for $5.95. We will hold books for up to 4 weeks after the event. After 4 weeks, unclaimed books will no longer be available. We will send out an email to absentees to coordinate which store you would like to pick it up at or if you would like it shipped.
• This ticketed event will take place at the Jewish Community Center in Squirrel Hill just down the sttreet from our Squirrel Hill store at 5738 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15217). There are public parking lots at the JCC and the Carnegie Library branch at the corner of Murray and Forbes. There is also street parking in the surrounding neighborhood.

About the book:

The River is Waiting is novel following a young father grappling with unbearable tragedy as he searches for hope, redemption, and the possibility of forgiveness.
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to Pr*son, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a Pr*son librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?

About the Author:

Wally Lamb is the author of seven New York Times bestselling novels: The River Is Waiting, I’ll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone. Lamb also edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s Pr*son in Connecticut, where he was a volunteer facilitator for twenty years. Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine, and they have three sons.

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