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Join local author Annie Hartnett as she discusses her novel, The Road to Tender Hearts.
"A darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals." - Publisher
The Road to Tender Hearts is this year's New England Book Awards finalist.
Copies of The Road to Tender Hearts will be available to purchase from The Blue Bunny.
For adults. Registration required. Contact Ari at apappas@minlib.net with any questions.
About Annie:
Annie Hartnett is the author of novels RABBIT CAKE (Tin House Books, 2017) and UNLIKELY ANIMALS (Ballantine/Random House, 2022) and the forthcoming novel THE ROAD TO TENDER HEARTS (Ballantine/Random House, 2025). Unlikely Animals was listed as one of the best books of 2022 by the Washington Post and BookRiot, and was long-listed for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. Rabbit Cake was listed as one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2017, was a finalist for the New England Book Award, and was long-listed for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize. Annie has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. Annie is a co-host of the writing and parenting podcast Good Moms on Paper, and she also co-runs Accountability Workshops for writers, helping writers commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, terrible process of doing the work. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog.
AGE GROUP: | Senior (55+) | Adult (18+) |
EVENT TYPE: | Books & Authors |
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