Authors on Tap: Rowan Beaird and Gus Moreno
About this Event
Please join us in person on Tuesday, July 21st at 7:00pm central for the launch of Rowan Beaird's new novel, Tenderness. Rowan will be in conversation with Gus Moreno!
About Tenderness:
On a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O’Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment the guests arrive, all they can whisper about is the bride, who recently left the headline-making cult Synanon. Why would someone like Shay, an Ivy League graduate with a wealthy, doting fiancée, join Synanon? And has she really escaped their grasp?
Told from the interwoven perspectives of Shay’s brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, Tenderness is a slow-burn mystery that excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. As the wedding day approaches, Joel and William pull at the loose threads of Shay’s story, and it becomes clear there is an even greater threat on the island than the secrets each character is keeping from one another.
Set in the tinderbox of the 1970s, Tenderness is a lit match, bringing hidden truths to light and asking if we can ever see ourselves or the people we love for who they truly are.
About the authors:
Rowan Beaird's first novel, The Divorcées, was named a best book by Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, People, The Independent, and the Chicago Review of Books. Her stories have appeared in The Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and The Common, among others, and she is the recipient of the Ploughshares Emerging Writer Award.
Gus Moreno is the author of This Thing Between Us, a "Best Book of 2021" pick by NPR and the New York Public Library. He's also the co-creator of When I Lay My Vengeance Upon Thee, a comic book series published by Boom! Studios. He lives in the suburbs with his wife and dog, but never think that he's not from Chicago.
About the event:
This is a free, in person event and registration is required. Please click on the link below to register for free! Rowan and Gus will be happy to sign/personalize copies of their books after the event! Can't make it to the event? Signed copies will be available in store and online with national shipping.
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