Tue, Feb 11
|Pale Fire Brewing Co.
Books and Brews! Join us in February for "I'll Come to You" by Rebecca Kauffman.
WMRA’s February Books & Brews will feature Rebecca Kauffman, discussing her new book, "I"ll Come to You".
Time & Location
Feb 11, 2025, 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Pale Fire Brewing Co., 217 S Liberty St #105, Harrisonburg, VA 22801, USA
Guests
About the Event
About the Book:
A modern and classic story of family, I’ll Come to You chronicles intersecting lives over the course of one year—1995—anchored by the anticipation and arrival of a child. With empathy, insight, and humor, Rebecca Kauffman explores overlapping narratives involving a couple whose struggle to become pregnant has both softened and hardened them, a woman whose husband of forty years has left her for reasons he’s unwilling to share and the man who is now disastrously attempting to woo her, a couple in denial about a looming health crisis, and their son who is fumbling toward middle age and can’t stop lying. Ultimately, these storylines crescendo and converge into a dramatic and harrowing turn of events. With heart, wit, and courage, and through pain, these characters traverse territory that both challenges and defines the bonds of family.
Sweeping yet compact, investigates themes of intimacy, memory, loss, grief, and…
