Talk and Book Signing with Bestselling Author Sarah Hepola

Join Half Price Books for an event with author Sarah Hepola, as she discusses her latest book, The Only Thing There Is to Want.

Meet bestselling author Sarah Hepola at your Flagship HPB on Tuesday, December 8 at 7 p.m. Sarah will join us to discuss and sign her latest book, The Only Thing There Is to Want, an electrifying and unflinching account of the ways we choose love, it chooses us, and how those choices build a life. Tickets include a copy of the book.

About The Only Thing There Is to Want

“I’m scared I only want what I can’t have,” I said.
“Oh baby,” he said. “It’s the only thing there is to want.”

Sarah Hepola wanted so much: a big career; travel and adventure; deep relationships; passion. Having realized so many of those desires, she also grieved the ways her life was not what she’d always imagined it would be. Did I want too much, she wondered. Did I make the wrong choices? Love the wrong people?

In The Only Thing There is To Want, Hepola revisits three complicated love affairs from her past, seeking to understand how they might have kept her from the life she’d envisioned, but also made her who she is. Examining her own decisions, Hepola probes the question: Is love ever really a choice?

This dazzling portrait of the mirages of modern romance captures the paradox of desire: wanting propels us forward and holds us back. Funny, achingly tender, and fearlessly intimate, The Only Thing There Is to Want is about discovering the beauty in the life you’ve built.

About Sarah Hepola

Sarah's essays have appeared in the New York Times magazine, Texas Monthly, The Atlantic, The Cut, Elle, The Guardian, and Salon, where she was a longtime editor. Her first book, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank To Forget, was a New York Times bestseller. She's the creator and host of the Texas Monthly narrative podcast America's Girls, about the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, and the co-host of the weekly culture podcast, Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em. Hepola lives in Dallas, Texas where she is a staff writer for the Dallas Morning News.

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