Name: An Evening with Mary Roach: Replaceable You
Start: 2025-06-28T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Midtown Scholar Bookstore

An Evening with Mary Roach: Replaceable You

Midtown Scholar Bookstore

Join NYT bestselling author Mary Roach for a pre-release launch event on her new book, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy.

The Midtown Scholar Bookstore is honored to welcome New York Times bestselling author and "America's funniest science writer" Mary Roach to Harrisburg for a pre-release launch on her new book, Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy.This is a ticketed event. Every ticket includes general admission entry and one signed preorder of Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. Books will be available for pickup on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025.Doors will open at 6:00pm; the event will begin at 7:00pm. Seating is general admission; first come, first served. Early arrival is encouraged. The author will be available for a meet &amp; greet and book signing for her previous books following the conversation.This event will be live-streamed. Every live-stream ticket includes one signed preorder of Replaceable You and the live-stream link. The link will be sent at least 24 hours before the event begins. Please check your spam folder if you do not receive the link in time. The books will be shipped via USPS Priority. U.S. addresses only. Please include your shipping address at checkout.About the BookFrom the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz, a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-create the impossible complexities of human anatomy.The body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available—sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs, crafting eye parts from jet canopies, and breasts from petroleum by-products.In Replaceable You, Mary Roach sets sail on the uncharted waters of regenerative medicine, exploring the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Is there a sensitive way to harvest tissue and bones from the deceased? Which animals might be the best organ donors? Through interviews with patients, physicians, pathologists, engineers, and scientists, Roach immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable, and surreal quest to build a new you.About the Author:Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in California.Prices include applicable PA sales tax and Harrisburg City amusement tax.

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