Author event with Jodi Picoult

Schedule

Mon Sep 28 2026 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00
Location

Vanderbilt University Student Life Center | Nashville, TN

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Parnassus Books and Vanderbilt University are pleased to present an evening with Jodi Picoult for her new book, HOLLOW BONES.
About this Event

Parnassus Books, Vanderbilt University Libraries, and Dialogue Vanderbilt are thrilled to present and evening with Jodi Picoult to celebrate her new book, Hollow Bones, in conversation with a special guest.

This ticketed event will begin at 6:30 PM and will take place at Vanderbilt University's Student Life Center - 310 25th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37212

Doors will open at 5:30.

Tickets:

Each ticket is $37.50 and includes one general admission seat and one signed copy of Hollow Bones. All books will be pre-signed. There will be no personalizations and no signing line following the event.

There will be a line for photos with Jodi following the event, and each ticket comes with admission to the photo line and a professional photo with the author.

Parking and Directions:

For the Vanderbilt Student Life Center, the primary parking is the 25th Avenue Garage, located off Highland Ave (levels 3-11 for non-reserved spots), with paid hourly options available in many garages like 25th Ave, Wesley Place, and Terrace Place for visitors, plus potential metered street parking nearby, but be sure to check the VUPS website for current visitor info and permit requirements for students/staff.

WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND CARPOOLING AND RIDESHARES IF POSSIBLE.

About the book:

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.

On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn't have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters.

Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse--a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis--have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.

Moving between past and present, Hollow Bones is an epic story of the lies we tell ourselves as we write the narratives of our lives, the plans we design to protect ourselves at the worst moments, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters.

About the author:

Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of thirty novels, including By Any Other Name, Mad Honey (co-authored with Jennifer Finney Boylan), Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband.

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Where is it happening?

Vanderbilt University Student Life Center, 310 25th Avenue South, Nashville, United States

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Tickets

USD 41.86

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