Maria Semple Live at Tattered Cover Colfax

Join us for a fantastic event with New York Times bestselling author Maria Semple as we hear about her new book, Go Gentle! Join us for a fantastic event with New York Times bestselling author of Where’d You Go, Bernadette , Maria Semple, as we hear about her new book, Go Gentle on Friday, April 17th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location. Registration includes the following: A signed Hardcover copy of the book This event includes an opportunity to meet the author, participate in an audience Q&A after the conversation, and get your book(s) signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome! We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK "Maria Semple is a treasure." — Los Angeles Times The New York Times bestselling author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette returns to form in her most exuberant and life-affirming novel yet with the story of one woman’s cheerful determination to live a life of the mind only to have the heart force its way in. Adora Hazzard has it all figured out. A Stoic philosopher and divorcée, she lives a contented life on New York City’s Upper West Side. Having discovered that the secret to happiness is to desire only what you have, she’s applied this insight to blissful effect: relishing her teenage daughter, the freedom of being solo, and her job as a moral tutor for the twin boys of an old-money family. She’s even assembled a "coven"—like-minded women who live on the same floor in the legendary Ansonia—and is making active efforts to grow its membership. Adora’s carefully curated life is humming along brilliantly until a chance meeting with a handsome stranger. Soon, her ordered world is upended by black-market art deals, secret rendezvous, and international intrigue . . . and her past—which she has worked so hard to bury—lands like a bomb in her present. Inflamed by unquenchable desire, Adora finds herself a woman wanting more: and she’ll risk everything to get it. Adora Hazzard’s journey of self-discovery will grip you from the start. Romantic, hilarious, intelligent, and bursting with the stuff of life, Go Gentle is a thrilling story of one woman’s mid-life transformation, cementing Maria Semple in the pantheon of our most exciting and important contemporary writers. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Maria Semple is the bestselling author of Today Will Be Different , Where’d You Go, Bernadette , and This One Is Mine . Her novels have been translated into forty languages. Before writing fiction, Maria wrote for TV. She lives in New York.