Author Talk with Wally Lamb: The River is Waiting

Titcomb's Bookshop presents #1 New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb to speak about his new novel The River is Waiting (pub June 10th) on Wednesday, June 11th at 6:30 PM at Oak Ridge School (260 Quaker Meetinghouse Rd, East Sandwich, MA).

Registration is required and space is limited. A signed copy of The River is Waiting is included with your ticket. Registration can be completed on this page or by calling Titcomb's Bookshop at 508-888-2331. There are two ticket options: the first includes admission for one person and one book, and the other includes admission for two people and one book (single household).

Lamb's books will be for sale at the event, and he will personalize books after the presentation. If you cannot attend but would like a signed copy of the book, please order here.

ABOUT THE BOOK

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of two Oprah Book Club Picks— and —Wally Lamb comes the propulsive story of a young father who, after an unbearable tragedy, reckons with the possibility of atonement for the unforgivable.

Corby Ledbetter is struggling. New fatherhood, the loss of his job, and a growing secret addiction have thrown his marriage to his beloved Emily into a tailspin. And that’s before he causes the tragedy that tears the family apart. Sentenced to Pr*son, Corby struggles to survive life on the inside, where he bears witness to frightful acts of brutality but also experiences small acts of kindness and elemental kinship with a Pr*son librarian who sees his light and some of his fellow offenders, including a tender-hearted cellmate and a troubled teen desperate for a role model. Buoyed by them and by his mother’s enduring faith in him, Corby begins to transcend the boundaries of his confinement, sustained by his hope that mercy and reconciliation might still be possible. Can his crimes ever be forgiven by those he loves?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Wally Lamb is the author of six New York Times bestselling novels: I’ll Take You There, We Are Water, Wishin’ and Hopin’, The Hour I First Believed, I Know This Much Is True, and She’s Come Undone. Lamb also edited Couldn’t Keep It to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s Pr*son in Connecticut, where he was a volunteer facilitator for twenty years. Lamb lives in Connecticut with his wife, Christine, and they have three sons.

EVENT ADDRESS

Oak Ridge School

260 Quaker Meetinghouse Rd

East Sandwich, MA 02537

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