'Intermezzo' Release Party!

Third Place Books at Seward Park, Chuck's Hop Shop, and Farrar, Straus, and Giroux are delighted to throw an after-hours release party for Sally Rooney's brand new novel, , released on September 24th!

Door prizes include Baggu bags, bandanas, notebooks, bookmarks, pins, stickers, and more! All tickets include a signed copy of Intermezzo.

What you need to know:

• Tickets are required. All attendees must be 21+.
• Festivities begin at 8pm and conclude at 10pm. Drop in any time!
• All tickets include a SIGNED copy of Intermezzo (10% off) and a 16oz pour at Chuck's Hop Shop (non-alcoholic drink options available).

(Please note: Sally Rooney will not be in attendance. Sorry! We tried.)

Having trouble registering? See Eventbrite's troubleshooting FAQ here.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.

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