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Anne Lamott
April 18 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Magic City Books is proud to welcome bestselling author Anne Lamott for a special event in celebration of her 20th book, Somehow: Thoughts on Love on Thursday April 18, 2024 at 7:00 pm. This ticketed event will take place at Boston Avenue United Methodist Church, 1301 S. Boston Avenue.
“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks.”
In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward.
This is a ticketed event, each ticket comes with one (1) hardcover copy of Somehow: Thoughts on Love by Anne Lamott and one (1) seat at the event on April 18.
Tickets are on sale now. Somehow: Thoughts on Love will be published by Riverhead Books on April 9.
| IMPORTANT UPDATE: Due to changes beyond our control, Anne will not be pre-signing copies of Somehow before the start of the event. All books that come with a ticket will be unsigned. Anne will be signing after the event.
Option #1 Pick up your copy of Somehow by Anne Lamott at Magic City Books (221 E. Archer Street) between now and Wednesday, April 17. Your book will be unsigned and you will be given a wristband for entry to the event and to reserve your spot in the signing line AFTER the event. Option #2 Pick up your copy of Somehow by Anne Lamott when you arrive at the event on April 18. Upon entry, you will receive your book and a color bookmark that identifies your signing group. At the conclusion of the event, guests will be called by color group to join the signing line. If you would like to stay to get your book signed, please wait until your color is called before joining the signing line. Whichever option you choose Please have your ticket printed out or pulled up on your mobile device when picking up your book. Anne is not personalizing books or posing for photos. **Note: Anne had planned to pre-sign books prior to the event. This changed due unforeseen circumstances and is not guaranteed. On Thursday Night, April 18 Doors open at 6:00pm and all seating is General Admission. This event will have a capacity crowd so please do not leave empty seats in the rows. When checking in please have the QR code on your tickets available for scanning (either printed or digital). Parking is available in the lots surrounding the church. Doors will be open on both the north side and south side of the church. |
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All tickets include a copy of the book, there is a limit of four tickets per transaction. Please provide the full name and email address of each ticket holder so that all event notifications and information can be sent to all attendees.
If you have a ticket and are unable to attend the event, you will be able to pick up your book at Magic City Books during normal business hours. The last day for ticket holders to pick up Somehow by Anne Lamott is Friday, May 31, 2024. We will make an effort to have signed books available for pick up but can not guarantee a signed copy.
About Somehow: Thoughts on Love
From the bestselling author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Help, Thanks, Wow, a joyful celebration of love
“Love is our only hope,” Anne Lamott writes in this perceptive new book. “It is not always the easiest choice, but it is always the right one, the noble path, the way home to safety, no matter how bleak the future looks.”
In Somehow: Thoughts on Love, Lamott explores the transformative power that love has in our lives: how it surprises us, forces us to confront uncomfortable truths, reminds us of our humanity, and guides us forward. “Love just won’t be pinned down,” she says. “It is in our very atmosphere” and lies at the heart of who we are. We are, Lamott says, creatures of love.
In each chapter of Somehow, Lamott refracts all the colors of the spectrum. She explores the unexpected love for a partner later in life. The bruised (and bruising) love for a child who disappoints, even frightens. The sustaining love among a group of sinners, for a community in transition, in the wider world. The lessons she underscores are that love enlightens as it educates, comforts as it energizes, sustains as it surprises.
Somehow is Anne Lamott’s twentieth book, and in it she draws from her own life and experience to delineate the intimate and elemental ways that love buttresses us in the face of despair as it galvanizes us to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. Full of the compassion and humanity that have made Lamott beloved by millions of readers, Somehow is classic Anne Lamott: funny, warm, and wise.
Anne Lamott is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Dusk, Night, Dawn; Almost Everything; Hallelujah Anyway; Small Victories; Stitches; Help, Thanks, Wow; Some Assembly Required; Grace (Eventually); Plan B; and Traveling Mercies, as well as several novels. A past recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and an inductee to the California Hall of Fame, she lives in Northern California.
