An Evening with Lois Lowry & Rebecca Traister
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Back Cove Books presents an evening with Newbery Medal recipient, Lois Lowry in celebration of her most recent novel, Building 903.
Families are invited to join us for an evening of discussion, interaction, and empowerment with Lois Lowry, author of The Giver and Maine's own Rebecca Traister, author of Angry Girls Will Get us Through.
Doors open at 6:00 PM
Event begins at 6:30 PM
Book signing after discussion
Tickets are required for entrance
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds. Please contact Back Cove Books directly with questions regarding ticketing!
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Lois Lowry
Lois Lowry is the author of more than fifty books for children and young adults, including the New York Times bestselling Giver Quartet and the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, Number the Stars and The Giver.
BUILDING 903
In the tradition of her bestselling, award-winning phenomenon, The Giver, Lois Lowry delivers a story about censorship, comfort, complicity, and the radical power of books to open portals and unlock our humanity through our most powerful tool: the imagination. Twins Tessa and Theo live in a world ruled by a tyrannical leader, where there are no dangers or rebels... or so they've been told. In this world, citizens live long lives, and while many hate their leader, they are comfortable and safe. So, when Tessa's brother disappears, nobody wants to discuss it. But then Miriam, their 135-year-old neighbor bound for the retirement community, slips Tessa a key—not only to her brother's disappearance, but to the source of all real magic . . . books. As Tessa and her parents begin their search for Theo, Tessa learns that books not only tell us stories—they open portals and unlock our humanity through our most powerful tool: the imagination. Once that truth has been revealed, Tessa won't be able to rest until she has retrieved her twin and society itself has been transformed. Two-time Newbery-winner Lois Lowry has crafted a narrative that feels at once prescient and eternal: in this world, the imagination is the revolution. Not only does Building 903 sit in the same resonant space as The Giver Quartet, but it is also a profound addition to Lois's enduring body of work—and a testament to the strength and value of her voice, vision, and legacy.
Rebecca Traister
Rebecca Traister is writer at large for New York magazine. A National Magazine Award winner, she has written about politics and culture from a feminist perspective for The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post and Elle. She is the author of three books, 2010's Big Girls Don't Cry, and the New York Times best-sellers All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation (2016), and Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (2018). Traister won the 2017 Sidney Hillman Prize for Opinion and Analysis. In 2026, she published Angry Girls Will Get Us Through, a book for young readers that draws material from her award-winning books and articles to show girls their anger has the power to be a force of change, just like for many trailblazers before them.
ANGRY GIRLS WILL GET US THROUGH
In her “brilliant” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) first book for young readers, New York Times bestselling author and New York magazine writer-at-large Rebecca Traister draws material from her award-winning books and articles to show girls their anger has the power to be a force of change, just like for many trailblazers before them. From an early age, young girls are taught that anger isn’t an emotion they should express. They’re told—either implicitly or explicitly—to spend their lives keeping their fury locked inside for the benefit of others. But partly, Traister argues, that’s because the anger of women and girls has been a crucial catalyst for change, putting in motion some of the most defining social and political movements in our nation’s history. And it’s that anger that will blaze the path forward for the future. Traister chronicles a concise history from the colonial era to the Women’s March of 2016 demonstrating how women’s rage has forged coalitions and created political change through movements for women’s and civil rights and more, and how the past decade has created an inflection point for women and girls who have yet to experience rights equal to men’s in the United States.
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