Laurie Frankel with Karen Maeda Allman — 'Enormous Wings: A Novel'
A 77-year-old woman's miraculous pregnancy raises urgent questions about female agency, bodily autonomy, morality, and mortality.
Third Place Books welcomes Seattle local and acclaimed author Laurie Frankel to our Lake Forest Park store to celebrate the launch of her new novel, Enormous Wings: the story of a woman whose grudging move to a retirement home precipitates an increasingly astonishing series of events, including a love affair and an unplanned—and allegedly impossible—pregnancy. Seattle Arts & Lectures board member and longtime Elliot Bay events coordinator Karen Maeda Allman joins in conversation.
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
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This event is free to attend. Registration is required in advance.
About Enormous Wings. . .
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel, an exuberant and timely new novel
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her three grown children—but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.
As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubber-neckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make—and some she’s not allowed to make.
Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks—even so late in the day—can still change, and then change everything.
Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of the novels Family Family, One Two Three, Goodbye for Now, The Atlas of Love, and the Reese’s Book Club Pick This Is How It Always Is. Frankel lives in Seattle with her husband, daughter, and border collie.
Karen Maeda Allman is an Assistant Agent at Wales Literary Agency and sits on the board of Seattle Arts and Lectures. Prior to that, she worked as a bookseller for over 33 years, 23 of these as author events coordinator at the Elliott Bay Book Company. Karen also worked as a nurse and as a nurse educator for 20 years.
About Third Place Books
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
A 77-year-old woman's miraculous pregnancy raises urgent questions about female agency, bodily autonomy, morality, and mortality.
Third Place Books welcomes Seattle local and acclaimed author Laurie Frankel to our Lake Forest Park store to celebrate the launch of her new novel, Enormous Wings: the story of a woman whose grudging move to a retirement home precipitates an increasingly astonishing series of events, including a love affair and an unplanned—and allegedly impossible—pregnancy. Seattle Arts & Lectures board member and longtime Elliot Bay events coordinator Karen Maeda Allman joins in conversation.
This event is free and open to the public. For important updates, RSVP is highly recommended in advance. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!
Having trouble registering? See Eventbrite's troubleshooting FAQ here.
Tickets:
This event is free to attend. Registration is required in advance.
About Enormous Wings. . .
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author Laurie Frankel, an exuberant and timely new novel
At seventy-seven, Pepper Mills is too old to be a stranger in a strange land. She didn’t choose the Vista View Retirement Community of Austin, Texas—that would be her three grown children—but when she grudgingly moves in, she not only makes new friends, she falls in love. Then the exhaustion, vomiting, and confusion start. She fears it’s cancer, dementia, a stroke. But a raft of tests later, the news is even more shocking: She’s pregnant.
As word gets out, everyone wants a piece of her: the press and paparazzi, activists and medical researchers, belly-rubbers and rubber-neckers all descending on Vista View while Pepper struggles to determine her next move. Soon she has some hard decisions to make—and some she’s not allowed to make.
Enormous Wings is an urgent novel about female agency and bodily autonomy, morality and mortality. It’s about what happens when you don’t get to choose anymore. It’s about motherhood and family, sex and love and friendship, and how those bedrocks—even so late in the day—can still change, and then change everything.
Laurie Frankel is the New York Times bestselling, award-winning author of the novels Family Family, One Two Three, Goodbye for Now, The Atlas of Love, and the Reese’s Book Club Pick This Is How It Always Is. Frankel lives in Seattle with her husband, daughter, and border collie.
Karen Maeda Allman is an Assistant Agent at Wales Literary Agency and sits on the board of Seattle Arts and Lectures. Prior to that, she worked as a bookseller for over 33 years, 23 of these as author events coordinator at the Elliott Bay Book Company. Karen also worked as a nurse and as a nurse educator for 20 years.
About Third Place Books
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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