Lindsay Bartels with Alle Mudrick Live at Tattered Cover Aspen Grove

Local author Lindsay Bartels is in conversation with Alle Mudrick on Tuesday, July 14th at 5:30 PM at our Aspen Grove location to share about her lovely memoir, Imogen in Waiting: A Memoir of Modern Reproduction.

Registration includes the following options:

• A signed Paperback copy of the book … OR

• A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store

We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book.

This event includes an opportunity to meet the author, participate in an audience Q&A after the book talk, and get your book(s) signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome!

If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.

ABOUT THE BOOK

When twenty-six-year-old Lindsay Bartels is diagnosed with breast cancer, she also learns she is a carrier of the BRCA1 gene. To not pass on the cancer-causing gene, Lindsay and her husband undergo IVF, only to find themselves with three viable embryos: two healthy males and one female-with BRCA1.

IMOGEN IN WAITING is the story of a mother grappling with an impossible decision-whether or not to bring a daughter just like her into being-while also asking some of life's biggest questions: What makes for a life worth living? How do we live with our decisions? How do we navigate the unknown? Told to her female embryo, Imogen, Lindsay's story is both human and God-like, about both agency and surrender, capacity and limitations-and how life is always happening in the middle of it all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

A native Texan turned Coloradan then Californian, Lindsay Bartels always pursues bringing the personal into her art. She has a BFA in Filmmaking (from CU-Boulder!), graduating with honors for her autobiographical documentary, and an MFA in Interior Architecture, focusing on sustainable design practices. When her firstborn was a year old, she created a workbook for new parents called Your Baby Manual. Lindsay currently lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband, their children, and two dogs where she is working on a novel about motherhood, everyday magic and belonging. Imogen in Waiting: A Memoir of Modern Reproduction is her debut.

ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER

After fifteen years as a research & strategy consultant for Fortune 500 companies, Alle Mudrick is the founder and editor-in-chief of Third Rail Press, a small press dedicated to the untold stories of women's lives, and author of the memoir Blue Hour Homecoming: Finding Life on the Fringes of Reproduction. She is also an editor and mentor in The Book Incubator, a writing program run by novelists Mary Adkins and Rufi Thorpe.