*POSTPONED* Lydia Millet -- "We Loved It All"
Schedule
Wed May 08 2024 at 06:30 pm
Location
Boulder Bookstore | Boulder, CO
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*This event has been postponed! We hope to reschedule at a later date*Lydia Millet will speak about and sign her new book, We Loved It All: A Memory of Life, on Wednesday, May 8th at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore.
Purchase tickets to attend at MilletBBS.eventbrite.com
About the Book:
This lucent anti-memoir from celebrated novelist Lydia Millet explores the pain and joy of being a parent, child, and human at a moment when the richness of the planet’s life is deeply threatened.
Emerging from Millet’s quarter century of wildlife and climate advocacy, We Loved it All marries scenes from her life with moments of nearness to “the others”— the animals and plants with whom we share the earth. Accounts of fears and failures, jobs and friendships, childhood and motherhood are interspersed with exquisite accounts of nonhumans and arresting meditations on the power of story to shape the future.
Seeking to understand why we immerse ourselves in the domestic and immediate, turning away from more sweeping views, she examines how grand cultural myths can deny our longing for the company of nature and deprive us of its charisma and inspiration. In a thrilling distillation of experience and emotion, she evinces the familiar sense of feeling both well-meaning and powerless—a creature subject to forces that are baffling in their immensity. The fear and grief of extinction and climate change, Millet suggests, are forms of love that might be turned to resistance.
We Loved It All shimmers with curiosity and laconic humor yet addresses with reverence the most urgent crises of our day. An incantatory, bewitching devotional to the vast and precious bestiary of the earth, it asks that we extend to other living beings the protection they deserve—the simple grace of continued existence.
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IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
*Tickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).
*A coupon good for $5 off a copy of We Loved it All, or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.
*Please note: our events are held on the second floor. To request a reasonable accommodation or discuss your needs, contact [email protected].
*After purchasing your tickets, send an email to [email protected] if you're a Readers Guild member and you'd like to reserve a seat at this event. Seats must be reserved before 5pm on the day of the event.
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Where is it happening?
Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St, Boulder, CO 80302-5103, United States,Boulder, ColoradoEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
