

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Caroline Paul discusses her new book Why Fly
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us to chat with Caroline Paul, author of Gusty Girl, about her new book, Why Fly: Seeking Awe, Healing, and Our True Selves in the Sky.About this EventThis event is free to attend. Seating is first come, first served. (RSVPs are optional, but encouraged for our planning purposes.)Meet the author, find out about a terrific new book, ask questions and hear directly from the author, and get personalized signed books!Bookshop West Portal is thrilled to welcome back Caroline Paul, New York Times bestselling author of The Gusty Girls and Tough Broad, to celebrate her new novel Why Fly: Seeking Awe, Healing, and Our True Selves in the Sky. We are so excited to support such a successful local author, and we hope you join us.You don't need to have read the book beforehand to enjoy the event, but we do recommend reserving your copy ahead of time: ABOUT THE BOOK:From the New York Times bestselling author Caroline Paul, a thrilling, gravity-defying book that takes us skyward to explore the art of aeronautics-and the depths of the human heart.Flying has long represented the beautiful, high-stakes human drive to invent, to explore, to experience. Caroline Paul has known this since becoming a pilot at twenty years old. Now she's in her fifties, and her long-term marriage is dissolving beneath her. She begins to fly a gyrocopter. Isn't it easier to learn a landing than a human heart?As Paul examines the descent of love through the ascent of flight, she turns her eye to the history, the physics, and the deep impact of flying on others. From the brave Night Witches who flew biplanes against the Nazis, to the ultralight pilots who believe they can save endangered birds by becoming one of the flock, to the many people afraid to step onto a passenger plane, Why Fly examines the ways flight, like love, confounds and yet transforms us. Often we soar. But we also crash land. Still, we want to fly. Why?Caroline Paul is the author of eight books, including the New York Times bestseller The Gutsy Girl: Escapades for your Life of Epic Adventure, and Tough Broad: From Birdwatching to BASE Jumping - How Outdoor Adventure Improves our Lives as We Age, as well as the illustrated memoir Lost Cat: A True Story of Love, Desperation, and GPS Technology. She is a longtime member of the San Francisco Writers Grotto.Agenda?: 06:30 PM - 07:00 PMBuy the book, browse the shelves, snag your seat!?: 07:00 PM - 08:00 PMHear from the author + Q&amp;A?: 08:00 PM - 08:30 PMSigning Line - Get your copy personalized by the author
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- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, trips-adventures
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## Event venue details

- **city**: San Francisco
- **state**: CA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: BookShop West Portal
- **lat**: 37.7401861
- **long**: -122.467075
- **full address**: BookShop West Portal, 80 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Thu, 26 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** BookShop West Portal, 80 West Portal Avenue, San Francisco, United States
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- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** BookShop West Portal
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, trips-adventures
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Caroline Paul discusses her new book Why Fly ?
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