Robert P. Baird: "The Nimbus"

One fall day on a campus in Chicago, the toddler son of a divinity school professor starts to glow. Thus opens Robert Baird's debut novel , a tragicomedy about the cascade of ensuing events and the baffling mystery of a literally enlightened child. On Wednesday, June 11 at 6:00 PM, Bobby will join Bookends & Beginnings for an author talk, Q&A, and book signing.

This event will take place from 6:00 to 7:00 PM, with doors and the MiniBar both opening at 5:30 PM. The event will be followed by a signing line.

grew up in Northern California, studied mechanical engineering and human biology at Stanford, and earned a PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. He has worked as an editor at The New Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, The Paris Review, Chicago Review, and Esquire and has published journalism, essays, and reviews in those magazines and other outlets. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and children. The Nimbus is his first novel.

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