Fulfillment: An Evening with Lee Cole

Fulfillment tells the story of two half brothers—Joel, a successful academic and author, whose marriage is in deep trouble, and his younger sibling Emmett, paralyzed by indecision and working on a factory assembly line—who find themselves at their family home in Kentucky and upend each other’s lives in devasting ways.

Between them is Alice, Joel’s wife, a wry, passionate young woman who is being slowly asphyxiated by domestic tedium, and whose longing collides with Emmett’s hunger for connection and desire to escape a sense of burgeoning failure and shame. As the chemistry between them escalates, the family is plunged into a violent crucible, each character brought to a precipice of immutable catastrophe.

Incisive, poignant, gorgeously written, Lee Cole has written a haunting novel about class, privilege, brotherhood, and the American South, a book that asks whether people can change, and at what cost, and what it takes to build a life of fulfillment and meaning.

6 pm reception/6:30 pm program
Free & open to the public. Registration required.

Copies of Fulfillment will be available for sale & signing courtesy of Joseph-Beth Cincinnati.

You may also like the following events from The Mercantile Library:

• Next month, 10th July, 06:00 pm, The Albert Pyle Urban Lecture: Becca Costello & Ella Rowen in Cincinnati
• Next month, 15th July, 06:00 pm, A Preponderance of Starry Beings: An Evening with Samantha Edmonds in Cincinnati
• This August, 8th August, 06:00 pm, The End of Childhood: An Evening with Wayne Miller in Cincinnati

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