Joyce Maynard in conversation with Andre Dubus III

When:
Tuesday, Oct 10, 2017 7:00p -
8:30p

Where:
Wellesley Books
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482

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Admission:
$5

Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences

Event website:
http://store.wellesleybooks.com/event/joyce-maynard

Please note that this is a ticketed event. Your $5 ticket can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. Click the link on the left to buy. Please also note that Joyce Maynard will be in conversation with Andre Dubus III, bestselling author of House of Sand and Fog.


ABOUT "THE BEST OF US"
From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss—“heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life” (Anne Lamott).


In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist Joyce Maynard met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn’t mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of.


Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even after they married, Joyce resolved that no one could alter her course of determined independence. Then, just after their one year wedding anniversary, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed, as they battled his illness together, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple—to be a true partner and to have one.


This is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance, a marriage cut short by tragedy, and Joyce’s return to singleness on new terms, The Best of Us is a heart-wrenching, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss.


ABOUT JOYCE MAYNARD
Joyce Maynard is the author of sixteen books, including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the bestselling memoir At Home in the World. Her essays and columns have appeared in dozens of publications and numerous collections. She is a frequent performer with The Moth, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and founder of the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop. She is the mother of three grown children, and makes her home in Lafayette, California.


ABOUT ANDRE DUBUS III
Andre Dubus III is the author of The Garden of Last Days, House of Sand and Fog (a #1 New York Times bestseller, Oprah's Book Club pick, and finalist for the National Book Award) and Townie, winner of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His writing has received many honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a National Magazine Award, and two Pushcart Prizes. He lives with his family north of Boston.


*Buy your copy from Wellesley Books in order to meet Joyce and have her sign your book at the event.


**Your $5 ticket can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. You can buy your book in advance or at the event.

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