Second Chances & Starting Over: Jessica Strawser and Sophie Wan

Second Chances & Starting Over: Jessica Strawser and Sophie Wan

Room: North Wing Music Room - 2nd Floor

Building: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main (Oakland)

Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Books: After the presentation, attendees are welcome to purchase a book and/or get their book signed at the tent outside.

Pre-registration: Closes on Thursday, 5/28, at 12 PM. Pre-registered attendees will receive priority seating. Walk-ins are welcome if capacity allows.

Moderator: Katie Kurtzman

Description

Oh, youth! One minute, you're full of optimism about the freedom of adulthood, making travel plans with your crew promising to keep in touch, and then life flashes before your eyes. The Quitters Club joins four friends reuniting for a girls' trip all in different phases of starting over from unsatisfying marriages to burnout, infertility, and the grief of losing a partner. Described as "The Social Network meets Daisy Jones and the Six," in The Social Circle, a group of once-inseparable college friends reconnect for the first time in a decade after a spectacular falling out pushed one friend out of their startup social media company.

Join Jessica Strawser and Sophie Wan to find out how friends navigate the messiness of millennials approaching middle age! "

Author Biographies

Jessica Strawser is the USA Today bestselling author of 8 novels, including Not That I Could Tell (Book of the Month pick); The Next Thing You Know (People Magazine Pick), The Last Caretaker (Talk Pittsburgh Book of the Month & Amazon First Reads), Catch You Later, & her latest, The Quitters Club. She is Editor-at-Large at Writer’s Digest & former Public Library of Cincinnati Writer-in-Residence.

Sophie Wan spent too long writing emails before she picked up writing fiction. She is the author of The Social Circle and Women of Good Fortune, which received starred reviews from Booklist and Shelf Awareness and was chosen for Gen Padalecki's book club. She lives in San Francisco, where she's still working through her inbox.

Moderator Biography

Katie Kurtzman is a book publicist and publicity director for Littsburgh: Celebrating Literary Pittsburgh, and has written for Pittsburgh Magazine, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Literary Hub, and Electric Literature. A concert enthusiast, she lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, two sons and closet full of band t-shirts.

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