Name: Alison Kinney presents 'United States of Rejection'
Start: 2026-05-29T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-05-29T20:30:00-07:00
Location: Third Place Books Ravenna

Alison Kinney presents 'United States of Rejection'

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An urgent self-improvement program for changing our relationships and the future of our messy nation.

Third Place Books Ravenna

Third Place Books welcomes writer and creative nonfiction educator Alison Kinney to our Ravenna store for a conversation about her new book, <a href="https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/9780820377230" title="https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/book/9780820377230" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope</a>. Exploring rejections both personal and political through lenses of science, history, and social criticism, Kinney's essays lead readers through the emotional geography of our a nation in flux.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&amp;A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured books! <h3>Tickets:</h3>This event is free to attend. Registration is recommended in advance.Please note: While RSVP helps us anticipate attendance, your RSVP may not guarantee a seat. Seating is first-come, first-served, and all events at our Ravenna neighborhood store are free and open to the public. Only standing room may be available for events with high interest.We are happy to accommodate any accessibility concerns. Please contact us at events@thirdplacebooks.com or call our Ravenna store at (206) 525-2347. <h3>About United States of Rejection. . .</h3>This is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nation and its people. Although we're taught not to care about others' opinions, rejection always hurts, and it hurts some people a lot more than others. To prove it, this book marshals contemporary neuroscience, the Founding Fathers' rejection advice, and four centuries of personal narratives, many of them hilarious, many more heartbreaking. These rejection and acceptance stories span loving and disastrous American first encounters, soldiers and dancers rejected on front lines and chorus lines, playground bullies invoked before the Senate, and generations of lovers and patriots battling or swiping right to defend their loved ones and their country.Abraham Lincoln wrote, "The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more evil, than of good." But rejection is often unjust, often deserved, and unusually complicated, depending on who's rejecting whom and why.In laboratories, diaries, self-help manuals, auditions, lawsuits, and wars, we find models for "getting past" rejections, not just through personal resilience, but also through creating accountability and justice. United States of Rejection begins with heartbreak and ends with hope: an urgent self-improvement program for changing our relationships and the future of our messy nation. Alison Kinney is the author of three books of nonfiction, including her latest, United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope, a cultural history of rejection and acceptance in our nation. Her writing on culture, history, the arts, and social justice has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, The Guardian, Lapham’s Quarterly, The New York Times, and other publications. Alison teaches creative nonfiction at Eugene Lang College at The New School and lives and gardens in Brooklyn, New York. <h3>About Third Place Books</h3>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 <a href="https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/events" title="https://www.thirdplacebooks.com/events" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">thirdplacebooks.com/events</a>.

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