# Event Details - **Event Name**: T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey - **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm - **Event Description**: Join us for a release event with acclaimed writer T Kira Madden, discussing her new novel WHIDBEY.About this EventModerating this discussion is bestselling author Carmen Maria Machado. This 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 Feb. 23 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---------------------------------------------------------------------“Epic in its scope, intimate in its evocation, Whidbey reads like a thriller, compels like a mystery and regarding the human condition, converses with the classics. This is the book everyone will be talking about.” — Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author of The Orphan Master’s Son and Fortune SmilesA portrait of three women connected through one man in the aftermath of his M**der—a stunning literary achievement and the explosive and highly anticipated debut novel from beloved award-winning memoirist T Kira Madden.Birdie Chang didn’t know anything about Whidbey Island when she chose it, only that it was about as far away as she could get from her own life. She’s a woman on the run, desperate for an escape from the headlines back home and the look of concern in her girlfriend’s eyes—and from Calvin Boyer, the man who abused her as a child and who’s now resurfaced. On her way, she has an unnerving encounter with a stranger on the ferry who offers her a proposition, a sinister solution and plan for revenge.But Birdie isn’t the only girl Calvin harmed back then. There’s also Linzie King, a former reality TV star who recently wrote all about it in her bestselling memoir. Though the two women have never met, their stories intertwine. Once Birdie arrives on Whidbey, she finally cracks the book’s spine, only to find too much she recognizes in its pages. Soon after, on the other side of the country, Calvin’s loving mother, Mary-Beth, receives a shocking phone call from the police: her only son has been murdered.Calvin’s death sets into motion a series of events that sends each woman on a desperate search for answers. A complex whodunit told from alternating points of view, Whidbey is searingly perceptive and astonishingly original. Exploring the long reach of violence and our flawed systems of incarceration and rehabilitation, this is a tense and provocative debut that’s sure to incite crucial questions about the pursuit of justice and who has real power over a story: the one who lives it, or the one who tells it? https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events8/banners/14bb6db0-ef5d-11f0-a259-774255d9d109-rimg-w494-h740-dc161713-gmir.jpg Photo credit: Shirley CaiT Kira Māhealani Madden is a diasporic Kanaka 'Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian) writer and author of the acclaimed memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls, which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, as well as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prize, and the Lambda Literary Award. She is the Founding Editor of No Tokens, a magazine of literature and art, and has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Hedgebrook, Tin House, MacDowell, and Yaddo. Winner of the 2021 Judith A. Markowitz Award, she is an assistant professor at Hamilton College in Creative Writing and Indigenous studies and served as the Distinguished Writer in Residence at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/14f01240-ef5d-11f0-8a94-a79c01f52a05-rimg-w1110-h740-dca5958c-gmir.jpg Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the bestselling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Her essays, fiction, and criticism have appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Granta, Vogue, This American Life, The Believer, Guernica, and elsewhere. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/new-york/t-kira-madden-carmen-maria-machado-whidbey/100001977737230295 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, parties, entertainment - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 13.61, max: 36.83, 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 gallery - **Alt text**: T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/39ee6bbfaf73ed5f5a8076be6b47743302857909b2c35dcc41b6864758bb30e2-rimg-w1200-h628-dcdf1830-gmir.png?v=1768184408 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey being held? - **A:** T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey takes place on Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm to Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 08:30 pm at Strand Book Store, 828 Broadway, New York, United States. - **Q**: How much do tickets cost for T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey? - **A:** Ticket prices for T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey range from USD 14 to USD 37 depending on the ticket type. This is a high-demand event - early booking is strongly recommended. Here's a full breakdown of available ticket types:Ticket TypePriceAvailabilityGeneral Admission + Copy of WHIDBEYUSD 37 + USD 4 fee + USD 3 taxAvailableGeneral AdmissionUSD 14 + USD 3 fee + USD 1 taxAvailable - **Q**: Who is organizing T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey? - **A:** T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey is organized by The Strand Book Store. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "T Kira Madden + Carmen Maria Machado: Whidbey", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events3/banners/39ee6bbfaf73ed5f5a8076be6b47743302857909b2c35dcc41b6864758bb30e2-rimg-w1200-h628-dcdf1830-gmir.png?v=1768184408", "startDate": "2026-03-09", "endDate": "2026-03-09", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/t-kira-madden-carmen-maria-machado-whidbey/100001977737230295", "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 acclaimed writer T Kira Madden, discussing her new novel WHIDBEY.", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "2026-03-09", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "lowPrice": "13.61", "highPrice": "36.83", "price": "13.61", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/t-kira-madden-carmen-maria-machado-whidbey/100001977737230295" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/t-kira-madden-carmen-maria-machado-whidbey/100001977737230295", "price": "36.83", "name": "General Admission + Copy of WHIDBEY" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-07", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-07", "url": "https://allevents.in/new-york/t-kira-madden-carmen-maria-machado-whidbey/100001977737230295", "price": "13.61", "name": "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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