Who: Nickolas Butler in conversation with Shannon HortonWhat: an evening celebrating his new novel, A Forty Year Kiss
Where: Pulpit Rock Brewing
When: Monday, 6/2 at 7:00pm
Join Wisconsin author Nickolas Butler (A Forty Year Kiss) and Shannon Horton, local school librarian, on Monday, June 2nd, at 7:00pm in the Pulpit Rock Brewing events room at 207 College Dr., Decorah IA, for an engaging conversation followed by a book signing! Everyone is invited to this free event, sponsored by the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation with support from Pulpit Rock Brewing and Dragonfly Books.
From the critically acclaimed author of Shotgun Lovesongs comes an exquisitely written, small-town story about one couple's hard-won second chance at love, forty years after their divorce.
Charlie and Vivian parted ways after just four years of marriage. Too many problems, too many struggles. When Charlie returns to Wisconsin forty years later, he’s not sure what he’ll find. He is sure of one thing—he must try to reconnect with Vivian to pick up the broken pieces of their past. But forty years is a long time. It’s forty years of other relationships, forty years of building new lives, and forty years of long-held regrets, mistakes, and painful secrets. An accomplished exploration of starting over and sunset triumph, A Forty-Year Kiss is a novel in the tradition of Kent Haruf's Our Souls at Night. This is a literary valentine that promises to become a love-story for the ages.
Nickolas Butler was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania, raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and educated at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the winner of France's prestigious PAGE Prix America, the 2014 Great Lakes Great Reads Award, the 2014 Midwest Independent Booksellers Award, the 2015 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award, the 2015 UW-Whitewater Chancellor's Regional Literary Award, and has been long-listed for the 2014 Flaherty Dunnan Award for First Novel and short-listed for France's FNAC Prix. Along the way, he has worked as: a Burger King maintenance man, a tutor, a telemarketer, a hot-dog vendor, an innkeeper (twice), an office manager, a coffee roaster, a liquor store clerk, and an author escort. His itinerant work includes: potato harvester, grape picker, and Christmas tree axe-man. He lives on sixteen acres of land in rural Wisconsin adjacent to a buffalo farm. He is married and has two children.
Shannon Horton has been a teacher librarian for over 20 years and holds a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of Wisconsin. She is currently the middle and high school librarian for Decorah Public Schools and wants nothing more than for her students to enjoy reading and find truth online.
This event is part of Dragonfly Books and the Oneota Valley Literary Foundation’s robust author event series, which brings top-notch writers of all genres to Northeast Iowa to lead in conversations about literature and writing. To learn more about this event and other events with Dragonfly Books, visit www.dragonflybooks.com.
If you find that you can't make it to the event but would still like to purchase any books from this author talk, give Dragonfly Books a call at 563-382-4275. Our staff will be glad to reserve a book, have it autographed for you, and shipped out as needed.
Event Venue
Pulpit Rock Brewing Company, 207 College Dr,Decorah, Iowa, United States