# Event Details - **Event Name**: In-Store: Julie Orringer: Luna, Phoenix, Queen w/ Emma Straub - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: "Julie Orringer is one of our wisest and most open-hearted writers; this novel filled me with joy and wonder." —Katie KitamuraAbout 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 book 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/xHbmKXnW_psAs 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.KIRKUS PRIZE FINALIST • A spellbinding tour de force from the bestselling author of The Invisible Bridge—a novel about varieties of infidelity, the provenance of a literary masterpiece, and the power of storytelling to shape identity and destiny.Dava and Barr Pennington, professors at a Midwestern university, both harbor potent secrets. Fiction writing is his specialty, English literature is hers. But Dava is unhappy in their marriage, and secretly in love with a colleague, Svetlana White, who teaches in the Russian Studies department; spurred by their complicated liaison, she spends her nights working on a novel about two women who run a domestic violence shelter in coastal Maine. Though she loves the work and the refuge it provides, the writing becomes increasingly difficult as her memory begins to fail; tests reveal that she’s suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s. After a precipitous decline, she moves to a memory-care facility in a neighboring town. Soon afterward, her husband, alone in the house at night, discovers her hidden manuscript, which he reads with envy, and then with anger, as he extrapolates his wife’s affair from the relationship described in the novel’s pages. Over the next two years he rewrites the novel and publishes it as his own, to wide acclaim. But persistent feelings of guilt lead him to confess his theft to an unlikely party, who leads others to the truth.Luna, Phoenix, Queen tells its tale of artistic and marital betrayal in a chorus of voices. We hear from Barr as he becomes obsessed with Luna, a horrifically injured dog at a local shelter; from Dava as she meets Svetlana for the first time, on a transatlantic flight to Dublin; from Milo, Dava’s son, as he hides in the woods with Naomi, Svetlana’s daughter; from Svetlana, experiencing the loss of a relationship that ended before it could come to fruition; from Evie, Barr’s research assistant, who witnessed Dava’s last days at home with her husband; from James, the Penningtons’ younger son, who makes a startling discovery after his father’s death; and from Milo and Svetlana again, as they grieve the injustice of Barr’s theft and confront the devastation of Dava’s disease.In a narrative that spans four decades and four thousand miles, Luna, Phoenix, Queen illuminates the power of storytelling and explores the terror of losing the ability to make sense of our world. It is a cry of rage against our vulnerability and helplessness; an acknowledgment of the mysteries beneath the familiar surface of our world; and ultimately, if unexpectedly, a radical testament to love in its many forms.Julie Orringer is the author of three award-winning books: How to Breathe Underwater, The Invisible Bridge, and The Flight Portfolio, which was the basis for the 2023 Netflix series Transatlantic. She is the winner of the Paris Review’s Plimpton Prize for Fiction and the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at the New York Public Library, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, and MacDowell. She teaches at New York University and Stanford University, and lives in Brooklyn.Emma Straub is a Guggenheim fellow and the New York Times bestselling author of seven books for adults, including American Fantasy, This Time Tomorrow, All Adults Here, Modern Lovers and The Vacationers. She and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-julie-orringer-luna-phoenix-queen-w-emma-straub/100001999542485400 - **Event Categories**: fitness, Art, literary-art - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Doors Open At: 6:30 PM - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Books Are Magic Montague - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10.89, max: 34.84, 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: Julie Orringer: Luna, Phoenix, Queen w/ Emma Straub - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/1529d845d5d280868a671d024ac596d3509bba1911371ed92e6806aa6bed7a23-rimg-w1200-h600-dc983808-gmir.jpg?v=1789551787 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is In-Store: Julie Orringer: Luna, Phoenix, Queen w/ Emma Straub being held? - **A:** In-Store: Julie Orringer: Luna, Phoenix, Queen w/ Emma Straub takes place on Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Wed, 14 Oct, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing In-Store: Julie Orringer: Luna, Phoenix, Queen w/ Emma Straub? - **A:** In-Store: Julie Orringer: Luna, Phoenix, Queen w/ Emma Straub is organized by Books Are Magic. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "In-Store: Julie Orringer: Luna, Phoenix, Queen w/ Emma Straub", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/1529d845d5d280868a671d024ac596d3509bba1911371ed92e6806aa6bed7a23-rimg-w1200-h600-dc983808-gmir.jpg?v=1789551787", "startDate": "2026-10-14T19:00:00-04:00", "endDate": "2026-10-14T20:00:00-04:00", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-julie-orringer-luna-phoenix-queen-w-emma-straub/100001999542485400", "eventStatus": "https://schema.org/EventScheduled", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Books Are Magic Montague", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "122 Montague Street", "postalCode": "11201", "addressLocality": "Brooklyn", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.6945995", "longitude": "-73.994642" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "\"Julie Orringer is one of our wisest and most open-hearted writers; this novel filled me with joy and wonder.\" —Katie Kitamura", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-16", "availabilityEnds": "2026-10-14T20:00:00-04:00", "validFrom": "2026-09-16", "lowPrice": "10.89", "highPrice": "34.84", "price": "10.89", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-julie-orringer-luna-phoenix-queen-w-emma-straub/100001999542485400" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/SoldOut", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-16", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-16", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-julie-orringer-luna-phoenix-queen-w-emma-straub/100001999542485400", "price": "34.84", "name": "Ticket + book (Store Pickup)" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/SoldOut", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-09-16", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-09-16", "url": "https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-julie-orringer-luna-phoenix-queen-w-emma-straub/100001999542485400", "price": "10.89", "name": "Ticket + gift card (Store Pickup)" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Books Are Magic", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/books-are-magic/22525923", "description": "Books Are Magic opened on May 1, 2017, in Cobble Hill. 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