Brian Selznick | Run Away with Me

Name: Brian Selznick | Run Away with Me
Start: 2025-04-23T19:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-04-23T21:00:00-06:00
Location: First Baptist Church of Salt Lake City

Schedule

Wed Apr 23 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

First Baptist Church of Salt Lake City | Salt Lake City, UT

Join TKE for an evening celebrating Caldecott winner, Brian Selznick's new young adult novel, Run Away with Me.
About this Event

Join TKE for an evening celebrating Caldecott winner, Brian Selznick's new illustrated young adult novel, Run Away with Me.

This event is open to the public and will take place at the First Baptist Church: 777 S 1300 E, Salt Lake City, UT 84102. Tickets are required for this event. Attending the event is free but if you'd like to get books signed you must purchase a copy of Run Away with Me from The King's English. She will sign two other books in addition to Broken Souls and Bones. If you have more than two books you'd like to have sign we kindly ask that you wait until everyone else has had an opportunity to get books signed first.

Copies of the book will be available to purchase at the event. If you cannot make this event, signed copies of Run Away with Me may be ordered from our website. Please specify in the comments if you would like your copy personalized.

About Run Away with Me

From #1 New York Times bestselling author/illustrator Brian Selznick, a profoundly romantic YA novel about two boys finding each other and falling in love over one summer in Rome.

"I'm going to call you Danny. What are you going to name me?"

"Angelo."

Danny is spending his sixteenth summer in Rome. As his mother spends the day at work in a mysterious museum, he wanders the ancient sites and streets. Soon after his arrival, he encounters a shadow... who becomes a voice... who becomes a boy his age. Angelo.

Soon Danny and Angelo are spending as much time as they can together, piecing together stories of the city while only gradually letting their own histories be shared. Attraction leads to affection, and affection leads to both an intimate closeness and a profound fear of what happens next. Danny has never really had a home, or known the love of another boy. Angelo seems to have more experience... but he also has secrets just out of Danny’s reach.

Run Away With Me is a stunning creation, weaving words and illustration to tell the story of a transformative love over the course of one Roman summer.