A Book Talk with Stephanie Perkins

Join Bookmarks for an evening with Stephanie Perkins and Jeff Zentner on Friday, October 10!

About this Event

Join Bookmarks for a conversation with Stephanie Perkins and Jeff Zentner! Stephanie Perkins will be talking about her debut adult novel, Overdue (out 10/7), which follows a North Carolina librarian deciding whether to renew love or start a new chapter.

This is a free bookstore event, and attendees will have the option to purchase Overdue with their registration.

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About the Book

Bestselling author Stephanie Perkins has written her best book yet, a debut adult novel about new beginnings and finding your way into adulthood.

Ingrid Dahl is a cheerful, twenty-nine-year-old librarian living in the cozy mountain town of Ridgetop, North Carolina. She and her boyfriend since college, Cory, have never discussed marriage; they're perfectly happy with the way things are. But when Ingrid's sister announces her engagement to a woman she's only been dating for two years, Ingrid and Cory suddenly feel pressured to start thinking about the inevitable: marriage and kids.The thing is, neither of them has ever been with anyone else. Shouldn't they sow their oats before settling down? So they make the unusual decision to separate for a month to date other people, assuming that at the end of it, they'll reunite and start planning their nuptials. And Ingrid has the perfect man in mind for this relationship sabbatical--Macon Nowakowski, her cantankerous and completely adorable coworker for whom she's had a crush for years. But of course the best laid plans often go awry, and when Ingrid and Cory meet at the end of the month to resume next steps in their relationship, it's clear neither of them is ready to get back together, and Ingrid's plans for an innocent hook-up with her co-worker have turned into something much, much more.

About the Author

Stephanie Perkins is the New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author and anthology editor of multiple books, including Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, Isla and the Happily Ever After, and My True Love Gave to Me, as well as There’s Someone Inside Your House, which was adapted into a major motion picture for Netflix. She has always worked with books—first as a bookseller, then as a librarian, and now as a novelist. She lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband. Every room of their house is painted a different color of the rainbow.

About the Conversation Partner

Jeff Zentner is the author of The Serpent King, which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best books of the 21st Century, as well as In the Wild Light, Goodbye Days, Rayne & Delilah’s Midnite Matinee, Colton Gentry’s Third Act, and Sunrise Nights, coauthored with Brittany Cavallaro. Among other honors, he has won the ALA’s William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award twice, the Muriel Becker Award, the International Literacy Association Award, been longlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal, and is a two-time Southern Book Prize finalist. His books have been translated into fifteen languages and been featured on The Today Show, Good Morning America, and in Vanity Fair and People Magazine. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. He lives in Nashville.

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