A conversation with Catherine Newman, 5 November | Event in Willoughby Hills | AllEvents

A conversation with Catherine Newman

Cuyahoga County Public Library

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Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm

1 hour

500 SOM Center Road

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Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm (EST)

500 SOM Center Road

500 Som Center Rd, Cleveland, OH 44143-1522, United States, Willoughby Hills

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A conversation with Catherine Newman
Join us at our Mayfield Branch for a conversation with Catherine Newman, author of "Wreck."

Register: https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/14301576

Newman is the New York Times bestselling author of the memoirs "Catastrophic Happiness" and "Waiting for Birdy," the middle-grade novel "One Mixed-Up Night," the kids’ craft book "Stitch Camp," the best-selling how-to books for kids "How to Be a Person" and "What Can I Say?," and the novels "We All Want Impossible Things," and "Sandwich." Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. She has been a regular contributor to the New York Times, Real Simple, O, The Oprah Magazine, Cup of Jo, and many other publications.

If you loved Rocky and her family on vacation on Cape Cod, wait until you join them at home two years later in "Wreck." (And if this is your first meeting with this crew, get ready to laugh and cry—and relate.)

Rocky, still anxious, nostalgic, and funny, is living in Western Massachusetts with her husband Nick and their daughter Willa, who's back home after college. Their son, Jamie, has taken a new job in New York, and Mort, Rocky’s widowed father, has moved in. It all couldn’t be more ridiculously normal . . . until Rocky finds herself obsessed with a local accident that only tangentially affects them—and with a medical condition that, she hopes, won’t affect them at all.

With her signature wit and wisdom, Newman explores the hidden rules of family, the heavy weight of uncertainty, and the gnarly fact that people—no matter how much you love them—are not always exactly who you want them to be.

📕 Books will be available for purchase, courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.


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A conversation with Catherine Newman, 5 November | Event in Willoughby Hills | AllEvents
A conversation with Catherine Newman
Wed, 05 Nov, 2025 at 07:00 pm