Wally Lamb: "The River Is Waiting" Book Release Event

Schedule

Mon May 05 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The River Room | Willimantic, CT

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#1 NY Times best-selling author, Wally Lamb, joins us for an evening celebrating the release of his newest book: "The River Is Waiting"
About this Event

Join us at Willimantic, Connecticut's newest intimate performing arts venue, The River Room, for an evening with lauded author Wally Lamb, as we celebrate the release of his latest book: "The River Is Waiting".


All attendees will receive a signed copy of "The River Is Waiting" with their ticket!


Enjoy a discussion moderated by local author Laura Heeger followed by a book-signing with Mr. Lamb!


ABOUT WALLY LAMB:

Wally Lamb is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels: I’ll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone. Lamb also edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s Pr*son in Connecticut, where he was a volunteer facilitator for twenty years. Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine, and they have three sons.


ABOUT "THE RIVER IS WAITING":

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks—She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much Is True—Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.
Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to Pr*son, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a Pr*son librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?

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The River Room, 50 Riverside Drive, Willimantic, United States

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