Rafe Posey presents The Stars We Share: A Novel

Wed Jun 08 2022 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

Third Place Books | Seattle

Third Place Books Lake Forest Park
Publisher/HostThird Place Books Lake Forest Park
Rafe Posey presents The Stars We Share: A Novel
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"Gorgeously written and impeccably researched." —Jillian Cantor
About this Event

Third Place Books welcomes bookseller and novelist Rafe Posey to our Ravenna store! Posey visits us for the paperback launch of his debut novel, The Stars We Share, a book set against the backdrop of WWII that J. Ryan Stradal calls "an absolutely captivating debut that’s equally suspenseful, sweet, lush, and propulsive." This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required in advance.

Copies of The Stars We Share will be available for purchase at the store. This event will include a public signing and time for audience Q&A. Sustain our author series by purchasing a copy of the featured book!

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About The Stars We Share. . .

Set against the backdrop of World War II, a sweeping, atmospheric novel of sacrifice, ambition, and commitment, and the secrets we keep from the ones we love

It’s 1927 when Alec and June meet as children in a tranquil English village. Alec, an orphan, anchors himself in the night sky and longs for adventures. June memorizes maps and railway timetables, imagining a future bright with possibilities. As the years pass, their love feels inevitable, but soon the Second World War separates them. Alec enlists as a Royal Air Force pilot flying daredevil fighter sorties at night; June finds her calling as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park, covert work that will mean keeping her contribution to the war effort a secret from Alec forever. Each is following a dream—but those dreams force them apart for years at a time.

Their postwar reunion is bittersweet: Alec, shot down and imprisoned in a series of POW camps, grapples with his injuries and the loss of his RAF career. June, on the other hand, has found her vocation and struggles to follow the expected path to domesticity, as much as she loves Alec. But Alec wants nothing more than to make a life and a family together.

With the war behind them, their scars—both visible and unseen—make them strangers to each other. Now each must decide how much to reveal to the other, which dreams can be sacrificed, and which secrets are too big to bear alone.

Spanning forty years and shifting from bustling Indian ports to vibrant gardens in Edinburgh to a horse farm in Kenya, The Stars We Share is a poignant, heart-wrenching novel about the decisions and concessions that make a life and a love worth having.

Rafe Posey is the author of the novel The Stars We Share and a short-story collection, The Book of Broken Hymns. He works as a bookseller on an island in the Pacific Northwest. The Stars We Share is his debut novel.


About Third Place Books

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events.

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Third Place Books, 6504 20th Ave NE, Seattle, United States

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