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Ivy Bookshop Family Dinners at Bird in Hand: Elliot Ackerman
The Ivy Bookshop is proud to launch a new series, Ivy Bookshop Family Dinners at Bird in Hand, that will give readers the opportunity to mix and mingle with their favorite authors over wonderful food and drink!
We are kicking off the series with acclaimed author Elliot Ackerman on October 24 and could not be more excited.
Each ticket admits one person and includes family-style dinner and curated wines, as well as a copy of the visiting author's book. This dinner will include a copy of Elliot Ackerman's WAITING FOR EDEN. Elliot will read and discuss the book over dinner, and we'll open up the event for Q&A with him as the meal wraps up.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
ELLIOT ACKERMAN is the author of the novels Waiting for Eden, Dark at the Crossing, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and Green on Blue. His writings have appeared in Esquire, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and The New York Times Magazine, among other publications, and his stories have been included in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Travel Writing. He is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. He divides his time between New York City and Washington, D.C.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
WAITING FOR EDEN
Eden Malcom lies in a bed, unable to move or to speak, imprisoned in his own mind. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his hospital room. He has never even met their young daughter. And he will never again see the friend and fellow soldier who didnt make it back homeand who narrates the novel. But on Christmas, the one day Mary is not at his bedside, Edens re-ordered consciousness comes flickering alive. As he begins to find a way to communicate, some troubling truths about his marriageand about his life before he went to warcome to the surface. Is Eden the same man he once was: a husband, a friend, a father-to-be? What makes a life worth living? A piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty and betrayal, love and fear, Waiting for Eden is a tour de force of profound humanity.
ADVANCE PRAISE
Gorgeously constructed . . . Unique . . . Both Edens and Marys fears and foibles are richly explored to create a deeply moving portrayal of how grief can begin even while our loved ones still cling to life . . . Ackermans focus on a single family makes the costs of war heartbreakingly clear, as does his drawing emotion and import from the smallest of acts with incredible skill . . . A wonderful novel.
Alexander Moran, Booklist (starred)
Ackerman skillfully weaves his storythrough a surprising, unconventional, and risky narrative strategy . . . Mary and the narrator inhabit a space that is empty and white, waiting for [Eden]We both wonder what will happen to us when he finally goes. The poignancy arises out of the fact that they both love Eden in their own way. An affecting, spare, and unusual novel.Kirkus Reviews (starred)
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11 East 33rd Street
Baltimore, MD 21218
United States
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