# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Aging Grace-Fully with Author Ayana Mathis
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 01:30 pm – Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 03:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Ayana Mathis is the author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie (Knopf, 2012) and most recently, The Unsettled (Knopf, 2023), the inaugural winner of McSweeney’s Gabe Hudson Prize.
The book was named a New York Times and Washington Post Notable Book of 2023, a best of 2023 by The
New Yorker, Publisher’s Weekly, an Oprah Daily Best Novels of 2023, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Books of 2023.

The New York Times calls it, “Poignant, heartbreaking,” while
The Minneapolis Star Tribune describes it as “An ardent,
ambitious, and carefully stitched tapestry of a novel, one that
deserves and rewards our attention.”

Her first novel, THE TWELVE TRIBES OF HATTIE, was a New
York Times Bestseller, the second selection for Oprah’s
Book Club 2.0, a 2013 New York Times Notable Book, NPR
Best Book of 2013, and was long listed for the Dublin
Literary Award and nominated for Hurston/Wright
Foundation's Legacy Award. Mathis’s essays and critcism
have been published in the The New York Times, The
Atlantic, T Magazine, The Financial Times, RollingStone,
Guernica and Glamour. Currently pursuing her Masters of
Divinity at Union Theological Seminary, Mathis’s most recent
nonfiction explores the intertwining of faith and American
literature in her five- part New York Times essay series
“Imprinted By Belief”.

This event will be offered in person and via livestream.  You may register here: https://ulsforms.wufoo.com/forms/rs32xlw02ky1y0/
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/flourtown/aging-grace-fully-with-author-ayana-mathis/200030488136017
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, virtual
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 3

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Flourtown
- **state**: PA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 7301 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119-1726, United States
- **lat**: 40.06187
- **long**: -75.191
- **full address**: 7301 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119-1726, United States, 7301 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119-1726, United States, Flourtown

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Aging Grace-Fully with Author Ayana Mathis being held?
  - **A:** Aging Grace-Fully with Author Ayana Mathis takes place on Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 01:30 pm to Thu, 08 Oct, 2026 at 03:30 pm at 7301 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119-1726, United States, 7301 Germantown Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19119-1726, United States, Flourtown.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Aging Grace-Fully with Author Ayana Mathis?
  - **A:** Aging Grace-Fully with Author Ayana Mathis is organized by Kindling Faith at United Lutheran Seminary.
- **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me?
  - **A:** Aging Grace-Fully with Author Ayana Mathis is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Flourtown, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. If Aging Grace-Fully with Author Ayana Mathis sounds like your kind of event, don't wait - spots fill up fast.

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