Chris Cox presents We Didn't Miss a Thing in conversation with Sean Bridgers
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Chris Cox will visit City Lights on Saturday, July 11th at 3:00pm to share his latest book, We Didn't Miss a Thing, in conversation with Sean Bridgers.
A warm, humorous, often poignant, chronicle of family life arranged chronologically over a period of nearly twenty-two years. It begins with a lost travel check for $12.36 that changed the author's life, plunging him into an adventure he could never have imagined.
You will watch two children growing up before your eyes: the wonderment of early childhood, the agony and ecstasy of adolescence, the mysteries of college and encroaching adulthood. You'll meet their pets--Walter, Frody, Oliver, Lucy, Ernest T, and Thelma Lou--and the profound joys and sadness of that every pet owner knows all too well.
You'll meet the parents and watch them navigate the crucial issues known so well to veterans of the marriage struggle: what to eat, and whose night is it to cook? Is that prom dress going to violate any local ordinances for indecent exposure? Do we really have room for another dog? I swear, if you turn that thermometer up one more degree I am going to lose it!
You will get to know each family member and come to understand the fundamental truth of that old saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction." Behold Tammy, casually burning the furniture in the yard one brilliant Sunday afternoon, unbeknownst to the rest of the family. Watch Kayden, six-years-old, trying so very hard to keep secrets the day before Father's Day, then again, years later, trying to figure out what to say to a child in her class who claims to be a descendant of Lady Godiva.
Here is Jac, scheming and charming his way out of impossible situations. And the narrator, a late bloomer, a grateful witness, a frequently bewildered participant in the greatest adventure of all--family life--and what it means to be a husband and a father.
The chapters in this book are like particularly delicious potato chips. You can consume a handful at a time, or you can eat as much from the bag as you have the time and appetite to do. You can read it from front to back, or you can skip around to different stages in the lives of these characters and this family.
This is Chris Cox's third book, all collections of his essays. His previous books, Waking Up in a Cornfield, and The Way We Say Goodbye, were well-received.
The late James J. Kilpatrick, a syndicated columnist and author or The Writer's Art, wrote of Cox's work, "Now and then a piece of writing comes over the transom that is so nearly perfect in its way that I read it with a sigh of admiration mixed with envy. If Chris Cox were not a writer, he would be a painter or a musician. He has a lovely sense of the music and color of words."
So then, you are cordially invited into the music of family life, sometimes dissonant and noisy, sometimes resonant and comfortable, sometimes so heartbreakingly beautiful that we can barely stand it. Sing along, relishing these memories, and your own.
A warm, humorous, often poignant, chronicle of family life arranged chronologically over a period of nearly twenty-two years. It begins with a lost travel check for $12.36 that changed the author's life, plunging him into an adventure he could never have imagined.
You will watch two children growing up before your eyes: the wonderment of early childhood, the agony and ecstasy of adolescence, the mysteries of college and encroaching adulthood. You'll meet their pets--Walter, Frody, Oliver, Lucy, Ernest T, and Thelma Lou--and the profound joys and sadness of that every pet owner knows all too well.
You'll meet the parents and watch them navigate the crucial issues known so well to veterans of the marriage struggle: what to eat, and whose night is it to cook? Is that prom dress going to violate any local ordinances for indecent exposure? Do we really have room for another dog? I swear, if you turn that thermometer up one more degree I am going to lose it!
You will get to know each family member and come to understand the fundamental truth of that old saying, "Truth is stranger than fiction." Behold Tammy, casually burning the furniture in the yard one brilliant Sunday afternoon, unbeknownst to the rest of the family. Watch Kayden, six-years-old, trying so very hard to keep secrets the day before Father's Day, then again, years later, trying to figure out what to say to a child in her class who claims to be a descendant of Lady Godiva.
Here is Jac, scheming and charming his way out of impossible situations. And the narrator, a late bloomer, a grateful witness, a frequently bewildered participant in the greatest adventure of all--family life--and what it means to be a husband and a father.
The chapters in this book are like particularly delicious potato chips. You can consume a handful at a time, or you can eat as much from the bag as you have the time and appetite to do. You can read it from front to back, or you can skip around to different stages in the lives of these characters and this family.
This is Chris Cox's third book, all collections of his essays. His previous books, Waking Up in a Cornfield, and The Way We Say Goodbye, were well-received.
The late James J. Kilpatrick, a syndicated columnist and author or The Writer's Art, wrote of Cox's work, "Now and then a piece of writing comes over the transom that is so nearly perfect in its way that I read it with a sigh of admiration mixed with envy. If Chris Cox were not a writer, he would be a painter or a musician. He has a lovely sense of the music and color of words."
So then, you are cordially invited into the music of family life, sometimes dissonant and noisy, sometimes resonant and comfortable, sometimes so heartbreakingly beautiful that we can barely stand it. Sing along, relishing these memories, and your own.
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