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October 30, 2021 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm PDT

SOLD OUT – Please note, all attendees must show proof of vaccination, sign in on contact tracing sheets, and must be masked throughout the event.

Point Reyes Books presents Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Odell in conversation about Solnit’s latest book, Orwell’s Roses.

Proof of vaccination status required for all attendees; contact tracing sign-in required. Depending on County guidelines, masks may also be required.

Please reserve your spot early, as we expect to sell out quickly. We will also provide a streaming option for those unable to make it in-person. Tickets are $28+tax; each ticket includes a copy of Orwell’s Roses.

For more information, visit the Point Reyes Books website.

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Point Reyes Station, CA 94956 United States

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February 21, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm PST

Jenny Offill – Weather

Presented by Point Reyes Books
Friday, February 21, 2020 – 7:00pm

Jenny Offill, bestselling author of Dept of Speculation, visits Point Reyes to discuss her highly anticipated novel, Weather. Jenny will be in conversation with the bookstore’s Stephen Sparks.

About Weather:

Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree. But this gives her a vantage point from which to practice her other calling: she is a fake shrink. For years she has tended to her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother. They have both stabilized for the moment, but Lizzie has little chance to spend her new free time with husband and son before her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal. She’s become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right-wingers worried about the decline of western civilization. As Lizzie dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you’ve seen the flames beyond its walls. When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to address the limits of her own experience–but still she tries to save everyone, using everything she’s learned about empathy and despair, conscience and collusion, from her years of wandering the library stacks . . . And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in–funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad.
About Jenny Offill:

JENNY OFFILL is the author of the novels Last Things (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the L.A. Times First Book Award), and Dept. of Speculation, which was shortlisted for the Folio Prize, the Pen Faulkner Award and the International Dublin Award. She lives in upstate New York and teaches at Syracuse University and in the low residency program at Queens University.