# Event Details - **Event Name**: In-Store: Jennifer Acker: Surrender w/ Megha Majumdar - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: "It's a timeless book, of timeless struggles and timeless hope." —Ben Shattuck, author of The History of SoundAbout this EventEvent guidelines:Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card.Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.A signing will follow the talk.Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/ocABtZmDI1wAs a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact eventhelp@booksaremagic.net.A woman retreats from academic life in New York City to manage a family goat farm in New England, a novel that Richard Russo calls “splendid and provides what I crave from all stories: vividly drawn characters worth spending time with and a richly rendered place for them to inhabit."Lucy Richard has enjoyed a two-decade-long, successful career in public relations in New York City when she feels compelled to move back to rural Massachusetts to try to save her father’s farm. Returning to her childhood home at age 47 is hard enough, but the difficulties multiply once she’s settled in: her determination to raise dairy goats and make cheese is hampered at first by her total inexperience, and then by the sudden loss of her farming mentor. To make matters worse, her husband, Michael, who followed her to the farm reluctantly and who has made a disastrous financial decision, is suddenly in severely declining health.Lucy finds solace in Sandy, a girlhood companion who quickly becomes more than a friend, but their new intimacy places the Richard farm in the crosshairs of Sandy’s employer, a solar energy company. How Lucy contends with the precariousness—at once financial, physical and emotional— of her new life, and with the competing passions and obligations that grow within and around her, is at the heart of this intimate drama of love and loss, of desire and friendship, and of the alluring possibilities of second acts.Jennifer Acker is author of the debut novel The Limits of the World, a fiction honoree for the Massachusetts Book Award. Her memoir "Fatigue" is an Amazon bestseller, and her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Oprah Daily, the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1, and The Yale Review, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is founder and editor in chief of The Common. At Amherst College, she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.Megha Majumdar is the author most recently of A Guardian and a Thief, which is a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal. It is also an Oprah's Book Club selection. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-jennifer-acker-surrender-w-megha-majumdar/100001983908429518 - **Event Categories**: Art, literary-art, Entertainment, Theatre, Workshops, health-wellness, performances - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10.89, max: 30.49, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Brooklyn - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Books Are Magic Montague - **lat**: 40.6945995 - **long**: -73.994642 - **full address**: Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: In-Store: Jennifer Acker: Surrender w/ Megha Majumdar - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/fd6ddb8be6d09b34e1465243f7b141e96b30ca661ace5321384eff3ac3393a3b-rimg-w1200-h600-dcce1e54-gmir.jpg?v=1772225121 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is In-Store: Jennifer Acker: Surrender w/ Megha Majumdar being held? - **A:** In-Store: Jennifer Acker: Surrender w/ Megha Majumdar takes place on Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 22 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for In-Store: Jennifer Acker: Surrender w/ Megha Majumdar? - **A:** Ticket prices for In-Store: Jennifer Acker: Surrender w/ Megha Majumdar range from USD 11 to USD 30 depending on the ticket type. 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