# Event Details - **Event Name**: "Wild Things: A Geography of Grief" book reading with Barbara Wansbrough - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 20 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Sat, 20 Jun, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Join us as Barbara reads from her critically acclaimed book, "Wild Things," a story of family through the lens of nature.About this EventWild Things: A Geography of Grief is an account of Barbara Wansbrough's daily walks through Griffith Park, Los Angeles, after the death of her sister during the pandemic.Structured as 59 letters, one for each year of her sister's life, it functions as an extraordinary act of attention. Plants, animals, stones, and chance encounters become a language through which the dead are transformed, diffused into the living world.What emerges is neither memoir nor elegy but a sequence of letters that reimagines mourning as a practice of perception: intimate, disorienting, and quietly profound."Wild Things" has received a rave review in the Times by John Self, as well as Rosie Boycott in the Financial Times and was also highly recommended by Oprah Daily: Six Memoirs That Make Grief Feel A Tiny Bit Less Lonely.The event at the Library — which falls on Barbara's sister's birthday— brings Wansbrough into dialogue with her husband, Paul Holdengräber, one of the great interlocutors of our time, for a searching exchange on grief, the limits of language, and the strange intelligence of the natural world.Why are we so unequipped to speak about death? What forms might still be adequate to loss? And what happens when we stop seeking closure and learn to dwell in continuity with the absent?This event is free. Feel free to pack a lunch.Welcome! - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/big-sur/wild-things-a-geography-of-grief-book-reading-with-barbara-wansbrough/100001986501111299 - **Event Categories**: raves - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fwild-things-a-geography-of-grief-book-reading-with-barbara-wansbrough-tickets-1986501111299 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Big Sur - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Henry Miller Memorial Library - **lat**: 36.2241787 - **long**: -121.7580453 - **full address**: Henry Miller Memorial Library, 48603 Highway One, Big Sur, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Henry Miller Memorial Library (https://allevents.in/org/henry-miller-memorial-library/22735943) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/74d6a655343c8041371fa20e8066da07ac150bb3dae1ef05fd29b28ac0f05673-rimg-w1138-h544-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1775131256 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/b3350269a64e4540e97477e0e9349cc78e8523234025c2ea7bc3d7819d99a63b-rimg-w400-h400-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1775131256 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 20 Jun, 2026 at 12:00 pm (-07:00) - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Henry Miller Memorial Library, 48603 Highway One, Big Sur, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Henry Miller Memorial Library - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** raves - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about "Wild Things: A Geography of Grief" book reading with Barbara Wansbrough ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": ""Wild Things: A Geography of Grief" book reading with Barbara Wansbrough", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/74d6a655343c8041371fa20e8066da07ac150bb3dae1ef05fd29b28ac0f05673-rimg-w1138-h544-dcffffff-gmir.jpg?v=1775131256", "startDate": "2026-06-20T12:00:00-07:00", "endDate": "2026-06-20T13:00:00-07:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/big-sur/wild-things-a-geography-of-grief-book-reading-with-barbara-wansbrough/100001986501111299", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Henry Miller Memorial Library", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "48603 Highway One", "postalCode": "93920", "addressLocality": "Big Sur", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "36.2241787", "longitude": "-121.7580453" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us as Barbara reads from her critically acclaimed book, \"Wild Things,\" a story of family through the lens of nature.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-02", "availabilityEnds": "2026-06-20T13:00:00-07:00", "validFrom": "2026-04-02", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/big-sur/wild-things-a-geography-of-grief-book-reading-with-barbara-wansbrough/100001986501111299" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-02", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-02", "url": "https://allevents.in/big-sur/wild-things-a-geography-of-grief-book-reading-with-barbara-wansbrough/100001986501111299", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Henry Miller Memorial Library", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/henry-miller-memorial-library/22735943", "description": "TheHenry Miller Memorial Libraryis a public benefit, non-profit 501 (c) 3 organization championing the literary, artistic and cultural contributions of the late writer, artist, and Big Sur resident Henry Miller. 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