# Event Details - **Event Name**: Alison Kinney | United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope - **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 10 Jul, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Fri, 10 Jul, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-04:00) - **Event Description**: Join us for an evening with author Alison Kinney for the release of her new book, UNITED STATES OF REJECTION.About this Event🎟 This event is FREE and open to the public and books will be available for purchase the night of the event! An RSVP grants general entry, but seating is not guaranteed, so please try and show up early. Please RSVP only if you intend to join us. Can't make the event? About The BookAn exploration of real-life, relatable rejections through reporting and lively storytelling United States of Rejection begins with heartbreak and ends with hope: an urgent self-improvement program for changing our relationships and the future of our messy nation.This is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nation and its people. Although we’re taught not to care about others’ opinions, rejection always hurts, and it hurts some people a lot more than others. To prove it, this book marshals contemporary neuroscience, the Founding Fathers’ rejection advice, and four centuries of personal narratives, many of them hilarious, many more heartbreaking. These rejection and acceptance stories span loving and disastrous American first encounters, soldiers and dancers rejected on front lines and chorus lines, playground bullies invoked before the Senate, and generations of lovers and patriots battling or swiping right to defend their loved ones and their country.Abraham Lincoln wrote, “The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more evil, than of good.” But rejection is often unjust, often deserved, and unusually complicated, depending on who’s rejecting whom and why.In laboratories, diaries, self-help manuals, auditions, lawsuits, and wars, we find models for “getting past” rejections, not just through personal resilience, but also through creating accountability and justice. United States of Rejection begins with heartbreak and ends with hope: an urgent self-improvement program for changing our relationships and the future of our messy nation.About The AuthorALISON KINNEY is assistant professor of writing (nonfiction) at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She is the author of the books Hood and Avidly Reads Opera. Her writing on culture, history, science, and social justice has appeared in many publications, online or in print, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review Daily, Lapham’s Quarterly, The New York Times, The Guardian, Harper’s, and Gay Magazine. She lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events6/banners/4d241310-25ee-11f1-8500-4f0c3b0bf48e-rimg-w479-h740-dcf3ead9-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/coral-gables/alison-kinney-|-united-states-of-rejection-a-story-of-love-hate-and-hope/100001985530648619 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, storytelling - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Coral Gables - **state**: FL - **country**: United States - **location**: Books & Books - **lat**: 25.7505441 - **long**: -80.2599664 - **full address**: Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Alison Kinney | United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/35b3a4141712f05208662067016d5000f7a1285aab403ca3a8a9e6e585518591-rimg-w1200-h600-dcf2e9d8-gmir.jpg?v=1774184089 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Alison Kinney | United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope being held? - **A:** Alison Kinney | United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope takes place on Fri, 10 Jul, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Fri, 10 Jul, 2026 at 07:30 pm at Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Alison Kinney | United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope? - **A:** Alison Kinney | United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope is organized by Books & Books. - **Q**: What has been the experience of attendees at Books & Books's events? - **A:** Attendees have given Books & Books a rating of 5/5 based on reviews from early attendees on AllEvents. 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