Author event with Lily King

Schedule

Wed Oct 08 2025 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Parnassus Books | Nashville, TN

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Parnassus Books is thrilled to present an evening with Lily King, in convesation with Ann Patchett, for King's new book, HEART THE LOVER.
About this Event

Parnassus Books is thrilled to present an evening with Lily King, in conversation with Ann Patchett, to celebrate Lily's new book, Heart the Lover.

This ticketed event will begin at 6:30 PM on Wednesday, October 8th, at Parnassus Books. (3900 Hillsboro Pk, suite 14, Nashville, TN.)

Ticketing:

Each ticket is $30.75 and includes one general admission seat and one signed copy of Heart the Lover.

Signing Line:

There will be a signing line for personalizations following the event on stage.

Parking:

There is ample, free parking in front of the store, as well as the lot and garage behind the store.

About the book:

From the New York Times bestselling author of Writers & Lovers comes a magnificent and intimate new novel of desire, friendship, loss, and the lasting impact of first love

You knew I'd write a book about you someday.

Our narrator understands good love stories--their secrets and subtext, their highs and their free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the simple rules.

In the fall of her senior year of college, she meets two star students from her 17th-Century Lit class: Sam and Yash. Best friends living off campus in the elegant house of a professor on sabbatical, the boys invite her into their intoxicating world of academic fervor, rapid-fire banter and raucous card games. They nickname her Jordan, and she quickly discovers the pleasures of friendship, love and her own intellectual ambition. Youthful passion is unpredictable though, and she soon finds herself at the center of a charged and intricate triangle. As graduation comes and goes, choices made will alter these three lives forever.

Decades later, Jordan is living the life she dreamed of, and the vulnerable days of her youth seem comfortably behind her. But when a surprise visit and unexpected news brings the past crashing into the present, she returns to a world she left behind and is forced to confront the decisions and deceptions of her younger self.

Written with the superb wit and emotional sensitivity fans and critics of Lily King have come to adore, Heart the Lover is a deeply moving story that celebrates love, friendship, and the transformative nature of forgiveness. Wise, unforgettable, and with a delightful connective thread to Writers & Lovers, this is King at her very best, affirming her as a masterful chronicler of the human experience and one of the finest novelists at work today.

About the author:

Lily King is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Euphoria and Writers & Lovers, and the story collection Five Tuesdays in Winter. Her work has won numerous prizes and awards, including the Kirkus Prize, the New England Book Award for Fiction, the Maine Book Award for Fiction, and a Whiting Award. She lives in Portland, Maine.

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Where is it happening?

Parnassus Books, 3900 Hillsboro Pike, Nashville, United States

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