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Virtual Event – Molly Wizenberg
August 24, 2020 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Magic City Books is excited to welcome James Beard award winner and Oklahoma native, Molly Wizenberg for a virtual event in celebration of her new memoir, The Fixed Stars. We will discuss food, love, sexual orientation, parenting and much more, mark your calendar and join us!
This free event will be hosted on the Zoom platform, to register in advance click here: https://magiccitybooks.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sLyvDUy8TqKIN9LnnbPb0w
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the event on August 24 at 7:00 CDT.
The Fixed Stars goes on sale August 4, you can purchase at Magic City Books or online here: https://magiccitybooks.square.site/product/the-fixed-stars/175
About The Fixed Stars
At age 36, while serving on a jury, author Molly Wizenberg found herself drawn to a female attorney she hardly knew. Married to a man for nearly a decade and mother to a toddler, Wizenberg tried to return to her life as she knew it, but something inside her had changed irrevocably. Instead, she would discover that the trajectory of our lives is rarely as smooth or as logical as we’d like to believe.
Like many of us, Wizenberg had long understood sexual orientation as a stable part of ourselves: we’re “born this way.” Suddenly she realized that her story was more complicated. Who was she, she wondered, if something at her very core could change so radically? The Fixed Stars is a taut, electrifying memoir exploring timely and timeless questions about desire, identity, and the limits and possibilities of family. In honest and searing prose, Wizenberg forges a new path: through the murk of separation and divorce, coming out to family and friends, learning to co-parent a young child, and realizing a new vision of love. The result is a frank and moving story about letting go of rigid definitions and ideals that no longer fit, and learning instead who we really are.
Molly Wizenberg is the author of two bestselling books, A Homemade Life and Delancey, and the James Beard Award-winning blog Orangette. She has written for the Washington Post, the Guardian, Saveur, and Bon Appétit, and she also cohosts the podcast Spilled Milk. With chef Brandon Pettit, Wizenberg cofounded the award-winning Seattle restaurants Delancey and Essex.
