# Event Details - **Event Name**: Daytime Book Club - The Road to Tender Hearts - **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 11:00 am – Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 12:30 pm - **Event Description**: Sidetrack Bookshop BOOK CLUB discussing The Road to Tender Hearts, by Annie Hartnett. Led by Sidetrack Bookseller, Rachel.About this Event* *Note: $5 registration fee can be used as a credit toward a purchase in-store. The credit expires the night of book club.**Join us for Book Club!Sidetrack Bookshop is a mission-driven bookstore, which means (in part) that we are committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive space for people of all identities. In order to maintain our welcoming and inclusive space in the context of what we hope will be a lively and productive book club discussion, we have developed the following house rules.By attending a book club meeting, you agree to the following:Share the floor: Be sure to let everyone talk and express their thoughts on the book. If you feel like you're talking a lot, you probably are! Invite others to speak.Be respectful: We'll no doubt have differing opinions. Seek to understand first, then to be understood. Check your privilege, and take special care with others who have lived experience differing from your own.Comments or behavior that demean a specific person, identity, or culture will not be tolerated.Book club hosts will keep these house rules in mind and will redirect you or the conversation as a whole if we feel they aren't being honored. We also reserve the right to ask an attendee to leave if we feel they're contributing to an unwelcome space.About the BookA darkly comic and warm-hearted novel about an old man on a cross-country mission to reunite with his high school crush—bringing together his adult daughter, two orphaned kids, and a cat who can predict death—by the beloved author of Rabbit Cake and Unlikely Animals“A miraculous novel—an actual and spiritual road trip you won’t forget.”—John IrvingAt sixty-three years old, million-dollar lottery winner PJ Halliday would be the luckiest man in Pondville, Massachusetts, if it weren’t for the tragedies of his life: the sudden death of his eldest daughter and the way his marriage fell apart after that. Since then, PJ spends both his money and his time at the bar, and he probably doesn’t have much time left—he’s had three heart attacks already.But when PJ reads the obituary of his old romantic rival, he realizes his high school sweetheart, Michelle Cobb, is finally single again. Filled with a new enthusiasm for life, PJ decides he’s going to drive across the country to the Tender Hearts Retirement Community in Arizona to win Michelle back.Before PJ can hit the road, tragedy strikes Pondville, leaving PJ the sudden guardian of his estranged brother’s grandchildren. Anyone else would be deterred from the planned trip, but PJ figures the orphaned kids might benefit from getting out of town. PJ also thinks he can ask Sophie, his adult daughter who’s adrift in her twenties, to come along to babysit. And there’s one more surprise addition to the roster: Pancakes, a former nursing home therapy cat with a knack of predicting death, who recently turned up outside PJ’s home.This could be the second chance PJ has long hoped for—a fresh shot at love and parenting—but does he have the strength to do both those things again? It’s very possible his heart can’t take it.About the AuthorAnnie Hartnett is the author of Unlikely Animals, which won the Julia Ward Howe Prize for fiction and was longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize. She is also the author of Rabbit Cake, a finalist for the New England Book Award and a Kirkus Reviews best book of the year. Hartnett has been awarded fellowships and residencies from the MacDowell Colony, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and the Associates of the Boston Public Library. Along with the writer Tessa Fontaine, she co-runs the Accountability Workshops for writers, helping them commit to routines and embrace the long, slow, joyful, terrible process of doing the work. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, daughter, and dog. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/royal-oak/daytime-book-club-the-road-to-tender-hearts/100001988656516173 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, meetups, kids, workshops, trips-adventures, business, conferences, dog - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes - Location: 325 S Washington Ave - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 6.24, max: 6.24, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Royal Oak - **state**: MI - **country**: United States - **location**: 325 S Washington Ave - **lat**: 42.4873955 - **long**: -83.14631720000001 - **full address**: 325 S Washington Ave, 325 South Washington Avenue, Royal Oak, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Daytime Book Club - The Road to Tender Hearts - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events1/banners/ac9284c677fbdf707fa052a3129aee1ee331ac6c91c3cd85153b70086200a298-rimg-w1200-h600-dcebe0cd-gmir.jpg?v=1777753058 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Daytime Book Club - The Road to Tender Hearts being held? - **A:** Daytime Book Club - The Road to Tender Hearts takes place on Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 11:00 am to Wed, 17 Jun, 2026 at 12:30 pm at 325 S Washington Ave, 325 South Washington Avenue, Royal Oak, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing Daytime Book Club - The Road to Tender Hearts? - **A:** Daytime Book Club - The Road to Tender Hearts is organized by Sidetrack Bookshop. - **Q**: Who is this event for? 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