About this Event
Join Colleen in this BOOKS BITES & BEVERAGES meet & greet. Your ticket includes: a copy of IN CONCERT (that Colleen will be more than happy to autograph/personalize) and SWAG! Tickets: $30 + sales tax + Eventbrite fees.
ABOUT COLLEEN OAKLEY
COLLEEN OAKLEY is the USA Today bestselling author of six novels including, The Mostly True Story of Tanner & Louise, The Invisible Husband of Frick Island, You Were There Too, Close Enough to Touch, Before I Go and her latest Jane and Dan at the End of the World, which was the Good Housekeeping book club pick for March 2025 and named a most-anticipated book for 2025 by People magazine, The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Zibby Media and more. Colleen’s novels have been longlisted for the Southern Book Prize twice and Close Enough to Touch won the French Reader’s Prize. Her books have been translated into more than 21 languages, optioned for film and have received numerous accolades including:
*Indie Next List Pick Jan 2015, March 2017 and Jan 2020
*Library Reads Pick 2020, 2021
*Top 21 Books of 2020 by O Magazine
*TODAY show Best Summer Read
*People magazine Best New Book
*Us Weekly “Must” Pick
*Inaugural pick of the Emily Giffin book club
*Romantic Times Top Pick
*Library Journal Big Fiction Debut
*Publisher’s Lunch Buzz Books
*In Touch Weekly: Grade A
*Pop Sugar’s Books We Can’t Wait to Read
*Real Simple’s Best Books List
*Bookbub’s 12 New Books to Read If You Love Jodi Picoult
A former magazine editor for Marie Claire and Women’s Health & Fitness, Colleen’s articles and essays have been featured in The New York Times, Ladies’ Home Journal, Women’s Health, Redbook, Parade, Woman’s Day, Fitness, Health, Marie Claire and Martha Stewart Weddings. A proud graduate of the University of Georgia’s school of journalism, Colleen currently lives in Atlanta with her husband, four kids, and a terrier mutt named Baxter.
ABOUT IN CONCERT
One Day meets Daisy Jones and the Six in this decades-spanning story of fate, love, and ambition, when a single photo taken one hot summer night forges an unforgettable bond for two star-crossed strangers.
When Abraham Ford and Rebecca Garavano meet as teenagers in 1977 at a Grateful Dead concert, the connection between them is as instant as the flash of the Polaroid camera someone uses to snap a photo of them together.
Fifty years later, when a flea market owner stumbles across the Polaroid and posts it to social media, one hawk-eyed viewer recognizes the young man as “Ham” Ford, a world-renowned classical violinist. The fervent attention to his love life as onlookers speculate about the young woman in the photo forces the now-reclusive Ham to confront his tumultuous and complicated past with “Bee” Garavano. A past he’d rather keep hidden.
Told only in snapshots of the iconic concerts and performances Bee and Ham attend over fifty years—sometimes together, sometimes apart, but never far from each other’s hearts—their epic love story is a heart-wrenching exploration of the connective power of music and the sacrifices we make for those we love most.
Event venue & nearby stays
JE Dunn Construction Group, 2555 Cumberland Pkwy SE, Atlanta, United States
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups — all the happenings, one place.