A Book Talk with Renée Ahdieh

Join us in celebrating #1 New York Times bestselling YA author Renée Ahdieh's adult debut novel Park Avenue! This novel, described as Crazy Rich Asians meets Succession, follows a young lawyer as she deals with a case that could make her career.

Register for this free event and pre-purchase a copy of Park Avenue to pick up at the event. Bestselling author Sabaa Tahir will join us as Renée's conversation partner. Books by both authors will be for sale at the event, and attendees can stay after the talk for a book signing.

To ask questions about accessibility or request accommodations, please contact Bookmarks at events@bookmarksnc.org or (336) 747-1471 x1001. At least two weeks' notice will allow us to provide the best experience possible for you and your guests.

Have any questions? Check out our Event FAQs page and email events@bookmarksnc.org for further inquiries.

About the Book

#1 NYT-bestselling YA author Renee Ahdieh's adult debut novel, about a young lawyer who gets pulled in to manage a crisis with her firm's biggest client, a family whose Korean beauty brand is worth a billion dollars, pitched as CRAZY RICH ASIANS meets SUCCESSION.

Jia Song was always destined for greatness. As the daughter of Korean bodega owners, she promised herself that she would have every Fifth Avenue luxury when she grew up, and it is all within reach. Sure, maybe her love life is in shambles and she’s spending too much time at the office. But as a brand new junior partner, she is set up to become her prestigious law firm’s next star. So when her boss asks her to sit in on the hush-hush meeting of a high-level client, she accepts without hesitation—only to find out that the client in question is one of the most famous Korean families in the world.

The Park family is worth a billion dollars, and their Korean beauty brand is mega-influential. But the patriarch is filing for divorce while his wife is dying, and their children can’t stop snapping at each other. With both the family fortune and legacy under threat, it’s up to Jia to set things right – and she only has a month to do it. Suddenly, Jia is thrust into the three Park siblings’ back-stabbing family politics and embroiled in drama. As Jia chases the truth across the globe on private jets, she finds herself falling for this broken, badly-behaving family in ways she can’t quite explain. But it is also becoming all too clear that the Parks are hiding dark secrets. Can she separate the truth from the lies in time to protect the Parks’ fortune and secure her success at the firm? And can she admit that what she always wanted isn’t what she actually needs?

About the Author

Renée Ahdieh is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In her spare time, she likes to collect shoes. She is passionate about all kinds of curry, makeup, and skincare. The first few years of her life were spent in a high-rise in South Korea; consequently, Renée enjoys having her head in the clouds. She and her family live in North Carolina. She is the #1 New York Times and internationally bestselling author of The Wrath and the Dawn series, the Flame in the Mist series, and The Beautiful quartet. Park Avenue is her debut adult novel.

About the Conversation Partner

Sabaa Tahir is a former newspaper editor who grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s eighteen-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, listening to thunderous indie rock, and playing guitar and piano badly. Her #1 New York Times bestselling An Ember in the Ashes series has been translated into more than thirty-five languages, and the first book in the series was named one of TIME’s 100 Best Young Adult Books of All Time. Tahir’s most recent novel, All My Rage, won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction and Poetry.