About this Event
Parnassus Books, Vanderbilt University Libraries, and Dialogue Vanderbilt, are thrilled to present an afternoon with Maggie O'Farrell to celebrate her new book, Land. Maggie will be in conversation with bestselling author, Ariel Lawhon.
This ticketed event will take place in the Commodore Ballroom of the Student Life Center on the Vanderbilt University campus on Thursday, July 2nd at 2:00 p.m. Doors will open at 1:00 p.m.
Tickets:
Each ticket is $35.50 and includes one general admission seat and one custom stamped copy of Land.
Note: All books will be pre-stamped. There will be no signing line for personalizations.
Parking and Directions:
For the Vanderbilt Student Life Center, the primary parking is the 25th Avenue Garage, located off Highland Ave (levels 3-11 for non-reserved spots), with paid hourly options available in many garages like 25th Ave, Wesley Place, and Terrace Place for visitors, plus potential metered street parking nearby, but be sure to check the VUPS website for current visitor info and permit requirements for students/staff.
WE STRONGLY RECOMMEND CARPOOLING AND RIDESHARES IF POSSIBLE.
About the book:
The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger.
"A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, gorgeous presence of its mosses, waters, winds, and skies." --Daniel Mason, author of North Woods
On a windswept peninsula stretching out into the Atlantic, Tomás and his reluctant son, Liam, are working for the great Ordnance Survey project to map the whole of Ireland. The year is 1865, and in a country not long since ravaged and emptied by the Great Hunger, the task is not an easy one. Tomás, however, is determined that his maps will be a record of the disaster.
The British soldiers in charge are due to arrive any day, expecting the work to be completed, but Tomás is unexpectedly sent off course by an unsettling encounter in a copse. His life, and the lives of those of his family, will never be the same again. Liam is terrified by the sudden change in his taciturn father. What was it that caused such cracks to open in Tomás, and how is Liam, aged only ten, going to finish the mapping and get them both home?
Land is a novel about separation and reunion, tragedy and recovery, colonization and rebellion. It is a story of buried treasure, overlapping lives, ancient woodland, persistent ghosts, a particularly loyal dog, and how, when it comes to both land and history, nothing ever goes away. As spellbinding and varied as the landscape that inspired it, Land is, above all, a story of survival, for our times and for all time.
About the author:
Maggie O'Farrell was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1972. Her novels include Hamnet (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Women's Prize for Fiction), The Marriage Portrait, After You'd Gone, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, The Hand That First Held Mine (winner of the Costa Novel Award), and Instructions for a Heatwave. She has also written a memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death. She lives in Edinburgh.
About Ariel Lawhon:
Ariel Lawhon is an award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction. Her books have been translated into over forty languages and have been Good Morning America and One Book One County selections. She lives in the rolling hills outside Nashville, Tennessee, with her husband and four sons. Ariel splits her time between the grocery store and the baseball field.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Vanderbilt University Student Life Center, 310 25th Avenue South, Nashville, United States
USD 39.72
