Author event with Rainbow Rowell

Parnassus Books, in partnership with Nashville Public Library Foundation, is pleased to present an evening with Rainbow Rowell, in conversation with Jeff Zenter, as they discuss Rainbow's new book, Slow Dance. This is a ticketed event and will take place in the auditorium of Nashville Public Library's main branch (615 Church Street, Nashville, TN 37219).

Auditorium doors will open at 5:45 and the event will begin at 6:30.

Ticketing:

You must have a ticket to attend this event. Each ticket is $31.00 and includes one general admission seat and one signed copy of Slow Dance.

There will be a signing line directly following the event to get your book personalized.

Additional copies of Slow Dance, as well as backlist titles will be available for sale while supplies last. Rainbow will sign any books purchased at the event, without limit, plus one book from home.

Parking:

Parking is available in the Library/Church Street Parking Garage. The 1st 1.5 hours are free with validated parking (provided inside the library lobby at the circulation desk) Regular rates apply after the 1.5 hours.

About the book:

Back in high school, everybody thought Shiloh and Cary would end up together . . . everybody but Shiloh and Cary.

They were just friends. Best friends. Allies. They spent entire summers sitting on Shiloh's porch steps, dreaming about the future. They were both going to get out of north Omaha--Shiloh would go to go to college and become an actress, and Cary would join the Navy. They promised each other that their friendship would never change.

Well, Shiloh did go to college, and Cary did join the Navy. And yet, somehow, everything changed.

Now Shiloh's thirty-three, and it's been fourteen years since she talked to Cary. She's been married and divorced. She has two kids. And she's back living in the same house she grew up in. Her life is nothing like she planned.

When she's invited to an old friend's wedding, all Shiloh can think about is whether Cary will be there--and whether she hopes he will be. Would Cary even want to talk to her? After everything?

The answer is yes. And yes. And yes.

Slow Dance is the story of two kids who fell in love before they knew enough about love to recognize it. Two friends who lost everything. Two adults who just feel lost.

It's the story of Shiloh and Cary, who everyone thought would end up together, trying to find their way back to the start.

About the author:

Rainbow Rowell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Eleanor & Park and the Simon Snow Trilogy, as well as several other award-winning novels, short stories, and comics. Rainbow lives in Omaha, Nebraska, just like most of her characters.

About Jeff Zentner:

Jeff Zentner is the author of New York Times Notable Books The Serpent King and In the Wild Light, as well as Goodbye Days and Rayne & Delilah's Midnite Matinee. Among other honors, he has won the ALA's William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award twice, the Muriel Becker Award, and the International Literacy Association Award, been long-listed twice for the Carnegie Medal, and been a two-time Southern Book Prize finalist. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. He lives in Nashville.

Host or Publisher Parnassus Books