Jen Hatmaker discusses AWAKE at B&N The Grove

Join on October 13, 2025, as we welcome New York Times bestselling author and host of the For the Love podcast to the store to discuss her latest publication: . Jen delivers a brutally honest, funny, and revealing look into the traumatic end of her twenty-six-year-long marriage, and the beginning of a different kind of love story. With refreshing candor, Jen explores a Midlife Renaissance—grieving what’s lost, cherishing possibility, and entering the second half of life wide awake.

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