The Vanishing Family: An Evening with Robert Kolker

Don't miss this opportunity to hear acclaimed author Robert Kolker discuss his new book, "The Vanishing Family."
About this Event

The Book Stall welcomes bestselling author Robert Kolker for a discussion featuring his new book, The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia. Moving, intimate, unexpectedly hopeful and redemptive, The Vanishing Family is an enthralling narrative about one family’s fate, and a medical detective story that speaks to all of us who fear losing ourselves at the end.

Tickets include a copy of the book. Book signing to follow.

Robert Kolker is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road, named an Oprah’s Book Club Pick, a New York Times Book Review Top 10 book of the year, a GQ Best Book of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century. His first book was Lost Girls, named a New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2013.