# Event Details - **Event Name**: April Reynolds: The Shape of Dreams - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 04 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Wed, 04 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a release event with award-winning author April Reynolds, discussing her new novel The Shape of Dreams.About this EventThis event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.Can’t make the event? ACCESSIBILITY:Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator.ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at events@strandbooks.com by Jan. 21 to request.Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred.For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact events@strandbooks.com---------------------------------------------------------------------A trio of women bond in friendship as a neighborhood tries to seek justice from a system that has forgotten them.“The Shape of Dreams is a powerful prayer, a novel that indicts the injustice for which there is no quick solution. . . . [It is] a song of furor and tenderness that will leave its mark.” —Walter Mosley, bestselling author of the Easy Rawlins seriesIt’s the mid-eighties in East Harlem: a twelve-year-old black boy's murdered body is found by Mathilda "Twin" Johnson, an unlikely hero who is both the neighborhood’s troublemaker and its conscience. When she breaks a cardinal rule—“don’t call the cops”—her decision ensnares a community and brings unmanageable grief to a mother. Anita, a postal worker and army widow, is determined to solve her son's Tyrone's M**der, and her quest galvanizes the neighborhood, which is itself a complex character in this teeming novel, with its Mets fans and gossips, immigrant shop owners and latch-key kids. The local dreamers include a charismatic man of the cloth, a teenage girl with a Whitney Houston voice and no prospects, and Anita’s opinionated friend Wanda, whose truant son the police harass and arrest on a regular basis.Everyone is struggling. Anita, Wanda and Twin, the triad of this vibrant novel, are drawn into the neighborhood drug trap, while a singer, a preacher, and the church ladies who follow him believe their dreams can shape a city.Will the three be able to break away from crack's dangerous allure? Will the reverend’s pressure on the authorities to find Tyrone’s killer yield answers? Will justice come to East Harlem?In the end, during the New York Mets’ banner summer of 1986, this community will come together to mourn, fight for a better life, and shape their dreams as best they can. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/9ebe56b0-cfc0-11f0-8029-05d09ca4897d-rimg-w557-h740-dc191919-gmir.jpg Photo credit: Beowulf SheehanApril Reynolds is the author of the novel Knee-Deep in Wonder, which won the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Award and the PEN American Center: Beyond Margins Award. She co-wrote The Red Rooster Cookbook with Marcus Samuelson and is co-editor, with Henry Louis Gates Jr., of The Toni Morrison Reader and The Zora Neale Hurston Reader. Reynolds has taught creative writing at New York University and the 92nd Street Y, and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. A former resident of East Harlem, she now lives in Astoria, Queens. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/april-reynolds-the-shape-of-dreams/100001975825208386 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, music, kids - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Fapril-reynolds-the-shape-of-dreams-tickets-1975825208386 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 13.61, max: 35.66, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: New York - **state**: NY - **country**: United States - **location**: Strand Book Store - **lat**: 40.73325150000001 - **long**: -73.99095319999999 - **full address**: Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: The Strand Book Store (https://allevents.in/org/the-strand-book-store/22544066) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/392a89656febea29ba0627ae3ac0649e9c84a7fc5010ae8ed1ecc4b74c99890b-rimg-w1200-h628-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1764708726 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/3706f004690e563831b709b3640e5311d9f8d3bc9e00329b75b7a55ed41c532b-rimg-w400-h400-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1764708725 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Wed, 04 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 13.61 up to 35.66 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** The Strand Book Store - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** art, literary-art, music, kids - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about April Reynolds: The Shape of Dreams ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "April Reynolds: The Shape of Dreams", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/392a89656febea29ba0627ae3ac0649e9c84a7fc5010ae8ed1ecc4b74c99890b-rimg-w1200-h628-dcdf1931-gmir.png?v=1764708726", "startDate": "2026-02-04", "endDate": "2026-02-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/april-reynolds-the-shape-of-dreams/100001975825208386", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Strand Book Store", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "828 Broadway", "postalCode": "10003", "addressLocality": "New York", "addressRegion": "NY", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "40.73325150000001", "longitude": "-73.99095319999999" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Join us for a release event with award-winning author April Reynolds, discussing her new novel The Shape of Dreams.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "2026-02-04", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "lowPrice": "13.61", "highPrice": "35.66", "price": "13.61", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/april-reynolds-the-shape-of-dreams/100001975825208386" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/april-reynolds-the-shape-of-dreams/100001975825208386", "price": "35.66", "name": "General Admission + Copy of THE SHAPE OF DREAMS" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-05", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-05", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/april-reynolds-the-shape-of-dreams/100001975825208386", "price": "13.61", "name": "$10 General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "The Strand Book Store", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/the-strand-book-store/22544066", "description": "Strand Book Storewas born in 1927 on Fourth Avenue on what was then called “Book Row,” an area that covered six city blocks and housed forty-eight bookstores. 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