AUTHOR EVENT: Jami Attenberg with A Reason to See You Again

Name: AUTHOR EVENT: Jami Attenberg with A Reason to See You Again
Start: 2024-10-18T17:30:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-18T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 601 South Main Street, Gainesville, FL

Schedule

Fri Oct 18 2024 at 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

601 South Main Street, Gainesville, FL | Gainesville, FL

Join us for an evening with Jami Attenberg on her newest title, A Reason To See You Again, in conversation with Kristen Arnett! This event includes a 30 minute writing workshop with the authors prior to the 6pm book discussion.
About A Reason to See You Again:
The women of the Cohen family are in crisis. After the death of their patriarch, Rudy, the glue that held them all together, everyone’s life soon takes a dramatic turn. Shelly, the younger of the two Cohen sisters, runs off to the West Coast to immerse herself in the emerging (and lucrative) world of technology. Her sister, Nancy, gets married at the age of twenty-one to a traveling salesman with a shadowy lifestyle, while their mother, Frieda, hurls herself into a boozy, troubled existence in Miami, trying to forget the past even as it haunts her. But each woman must learn in her own way that running from the past can’t save you—and they must make life-altering decisions about what they want their family to be and what they need for themselves to move forward. Beginning in the 1970s and spanning forty years, A Reason to See You Again takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey through motherhood, the American workforce, the tech industry, the self-help movement, inherited trauma, the ever-evolving ways we communicate with one another, and the many unexpected forms that love can take.
About Jami Attenberg
Jami Attenberg is a New York Times bestselling author of seven books of fiction, including The Middlesteins and All Grown Up; a memoir, I Came All This Way to Meet You; and, most recently, 1000 Words: A Writer's Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All Year Round. She is the founder of the annual #1000WordsofSummer project, and maintains the popular Craft Talk newsletter year-round. Her work has been published in sixteen languages. She lives in New Orleans.