Author event with Jason Reynolds

Parnassus Books and Humanities Tennessee are thrilled to present an evening with Jason Reynolds to celebrate his new book, Coach.

This is a ticketed event and will take place on Thursday, October 16th at the Tennessee State Library & Archives (1001 Rep. John Lewis Way N, Nashville, TN 37219). Doors will open at 5:45 PM.

Tickets:

You must have a ticket to attend this event. Each ticket is $20.00 (plus Eventbrite fees) and includes one signed hardcover edition of Coach.

Please be sure to select the correct ticket type.

Single attendee ticket: Includes general admission for ONE attendee, with ONE pre-signed book.

Adult with child ticket: Includes general admission for ONE adult and ONE child, with ONE pre-signed book.

Additional copies of Coach, as well as select copies of the author's previous books, will be available for purchase at the event while supplies last.

Parking:

Free parking is available in the parking garage located off Junior Gilliam Way (between 5th & 6th). The garage entrance is located closer to the Bicentennial Mall side (6th).

About the book:

In this companion to Jason Reynolds’s award-winning and New York Times bestselling Track series, meet Coach as a boy striving to come into his own as a track star while facing upheaval at home.Before Coach was the man who gave caring yet firm-handed guidance to Ghost, Lu, Patina, and Sunny on the Defenders track team, he was little Otie Brody, who was obsessed with Mr. 9.99 (a.k.a. Carl Lewis) and Marty McFly from Back to the Future. Like Mr. 9.99—and his own dad—Otie is a sprinter. Sprint free or die is practically his motto.Then his dad, who is always away on business trips, comes home with a pair of Jordans. JORDANS. Fine as fine can be. Otie puts them on and feels like he can leap to the moon…maybe even leap like Mr. 9.99 when he won the Olympic gold medal in the long jump. But one morning he wakes up to find his brand-new secret weapon kicks are missing—right off his feet! And Otie just might have a fuzzy memory of his dad easing them off as Otie was sleeping, but that can’t be right, can it?Unless all the reasons for his dad’s “gones” are very different from what he’s been told… Because now, not only are the Jordans missing, but so is his father.

About the author:

Jason Reynolds is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of many award-winning books, including The Track series (the newest of which is Coach), Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks, All American Boys (with Brendan Kiely), Long Way Down, Stuntboy, in the Meantime (illustrated by Raúl the Third), and There Was a Party for Langston (illustrated by the Pumphrey brothers). The recipient of a Newbery Honor, a Printz Honor, an NAACP Image Award, and multiple Coretta Scott King honors, Reynolds was the 2020-2022 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and is a 2024 MacArthur Fellow. He has appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Daily Show, Late Night with Seth Meyers, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, and various media outlets. He is on faculty at Lesley University, for the Writing for Young People MFA Program and lives in Washington, DC.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Tennessee State Library & Archives, 1001 Rep. John Lewis Way North, Nashville, United States