

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: In-Store: Stefan Merrill Block: Homeschooled w/ Emma Straub
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: "Painful, funny, honest, heartbreaking. Nothing less than a sensational book." —Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of LessAbout 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/5_S-u9mlSBkAs 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 heartbreaking, empowering and often hilarious debut memoir about a mother’s all-consuming love, a son’s perilous quest to discover the world beyond the front door and the unregulated homeschool system that impacts millions like him.Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were “stifling his creativity.” Hungry for more time with her boy who was growing up too quickly, she began to instruct Stefan in the family’s living room. Beyond his formal lessons in math, however, Stefan was largely left to his own devices and his mother’s erratic whims, such as her project to recapture her twelve-year-old son's early years by bleaching his hair and putting him on a crawling regimen.Years before homeschooling would become a massive nationwide movement, at a time when it had just become legal in his home state of Texas, Stefan vanished into that unseen space and into his mother’s increasingly eccentric theories and projects. But when, after five years away from the outside world, Stefan reentered the public school system in Plano as a freshman, he was in for a jarring awakening.At once a novelistic portrait of mother and son, and an illuminating window into an overlooked corner of the American education system, Homeschooled is a moving, funny and ultimately inspiring story of a son’s battle for a life of his own choosing, and the wages of a mother’s insatiable love.Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Plano, Texas. His first book, The Story of Forgetting, was an international bestseller and the winner of Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, The Ovid Prize from the Romanian Writer's Union, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers’ League of Texas. The Story of Forgetting was also a finalist for the debut fiction awards from IndieBound, Salon du Livre and The Center for Fiction. Stefan's novels have been translated into ten languages, and his stories and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker Page-Turner, The Guardian, NPR’s Radiolab, GRANTA, The Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He lives in upstate New York.Emma Straub is the New York Times bestselling author of six books for adults: the novels This Time Tomorrow, All Adults Here, The Vacationers, Modern Lovers, Laura Lamont's Life in Pictures, and the short story collection Other People We Married. She is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and her work has been published in more than 20 languages. Emma and her husband own Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Brooklyn, New York. Her next novel, American Fantasy, comes out April 7.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/brooklyn/in-store-stefan-merrill-block-homeschooled-w-emma-straub/100001962510865829
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, festivals, magic-show
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## Ticket Details

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- **Ticket Price Range**: min: 10.89, max: 32.66, currency: USD

## Event venue details

- **city**: Brooklyn
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Books Are Magic Montague
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- **full address**: Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States
- **Q**: What is the ticket price?
  - **A:** starting from 10.89 up to 32.66 USD
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Books Are Magic
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, festivals, magic-show
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about In-Store: Stefan Merrill Block: Homeschooled w/ Emma Straub ?
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