Join us for the culmination of the second half of Better Through Books: Healing Community Together with this compelling keynote author talk featuring Gabrielle Zevin and her New York Times bestseller, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry.

As surprising as it is moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances, an irresistible affirmation of why we read, and why we love. We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry spent several months on the New York Times Best Seller List, reached #1 on the National Indie Best Seller List, was a USA Today Best Seller, and has been a best seller all around the world. A.J. Fikry was honored with the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction and the Booksellers’ Prize (Japan), and was long listed for the International Dublin Literary Award. The Toronto Globe and Mail called the book “a powerful novel about the power of novels.”

Gabrielle Zevin is a New York Times best-selling and critically acclaimed novelist whose books have been translated into thirty-eight languages. Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow is her tenth novel and will be published by Knopf in 2022.

The Library has purchased 20 copies of the book, which you can request here.  The audiobook can be requested here.

Registration is required; Zoom information will be sent in your registration confirmation.

Thanks to our community co-sponsors and the Friends of the Belmont Public Library to make this amazing series of events possible.