

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Rebecca McClanahan presents Light Falls on Everything
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sun, 03 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Rebecca McClanahan will visit City Lights on Sunday, May 3rd at 1:00pm to share her new book, LIGHT FALLS ON EVERYTHING: A Daughter's Memoir of Caregiving, Grief, and Possibility.

A daughter’s moving journey through elder care and impending loss

My father’s heart, and my mother’s, can still break. In this most essential way, they are still themselves. They are still here.

To stay together until the end was the deepest wish of Rebecca McClanahan’s elderly, frail parents. So when the two of them could no longer care for themselves, Rebecca and her siblings moved them from Indiana to North Carolina, where she and her husband assumed the roles of “first responders” with support from the extended family. Over the course of her parents' final years, Rebecca discovers that the landscape of dementia isn’t entirely bleak if we can hold on long enough to rediscover in our loved ones the essential selves we feared were lost.

Light Falls on Everything takes us inside the intimate rooms of long-term caregiving, where exhaustion, confusion, heartbreak, and grief can shadow the most ordinary days. Still, light flickers in even the darkest corners, revealing moments of tenderness, laughter, absurdity, surprise, and unrelenting love. Emotionally gripping and unstintingly honest, this memoir invites us to reflect on the timeless nature of love and loss and, with it, the unexpected lessons of caregiving: how to move forward into our own uncertain futures, accept grief as a longtime companion, and approach death with some measure of grace.

Rebecca McClanahan is the author of twelve books, including memoirs, essays, poetry, and writing guides. She teaches in the Queens University of Charlotte MFA program and conducts workshops and readings throughout the country.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/sylva/rebecca-mcclanahan-presents-light-falls-on-everything/200029632082355
- **Event Categories**: workshops, art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 7

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Sylva
- **state**: NC
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779
- **lat**: 35.37294
- **long**: -83.22335
- **full address**: 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: City Lights Bookstore (https://allevents.in/org/city-lights-bookstore/14433827)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sun, 03 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** City Lights Bookstore
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** workshops, art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Rebecca McClanahan presents Light Falls on Everything ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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