About this Event
We are so excited to welcome Steven Rowley in conversation with local book enthusiast, Frank Socha, on Wednesday, May 20th at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location to celebrate his new epic love story, Take Me with You.
Registration includes a signed Hardcover copy of the book, an opportunity to meet the author, participate in an audience Q&A after the conversation, and get your book(s) signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome!
We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store.
If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store.
ABOUT THE BOOK
"Only national treasure Steven Rowley could blur the otherworldly with the everyday and turn all of it into heartache-flavored comedy." —Catherine Newman, New York Times bestselling author of Sandwich and Wreck
We are all alien, even to the people who know us best.
College professor Jesse del Ruth has been abandoned. Thirty years into their relationship, Jesse witnesses his husband, Norman, get out of bed late one night, walk into their Joshua Tree backyard, step into a strange beam of light and . . . disappear. How could Norman desert him after a lifetime together? Where did he go? And, most confoundingly . . . will he ever return? Jesse knew they were both feeling stuck, longing for something they couldn’t quite name. But was their rut so deep that Norman’s only option was to leave Jesse behind?
As Jesse struggles to understand Norman’s disappearance, he tries to piece together his new reality. Is he expected to wait patiently for a partner who may never come back? Or is this an opportunity for reinvention? He is, after all, alone for the first time in his adult life. Should he return to the classroom? Put in a pool? Get a dog? Call his estranged mother? What does it mean to be alone when you’ve always been one half of a whole?
When Norman’s sister, Lally, lands on Jesse’s doorstep with an urgent request, Norman’s absence becomes even more profound. Add to Jesse’s grief and confusion a conspiracy-theorist neighbor, a strange man following him, and suspicions that he may have had a hand in Norman’s disappearance, and Jesse starts to crack under the pressure. With his husband missing and the world closing in, all eyes are on Jesse. Before he can understand how Norman could leave it all behind, Jesse must confront what it means to stay.
In Take Me With You, Steven Rowley brings his resonant wit and emotional insight to an epic love story—an exploration of the forces that draw two people into the same orbit and the gravity that threatens to pull them apart.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Steven Rowley is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, including Lily and the Octopus, a Washington Post Notable Book; The Editor, an NPR Best Book of the Year; The Guncle, winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor; and The Celebrants, a Today Show Read with Jenna book club pick. His fiction has been translated into twenty languages. He resides in Palm Springs, California.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER
Frank Socha is a proud Denver native who firmly believes there’s no such thing as too many books (only too few bookshelves), I spend most of my time championing queer stories and emotionally wrecking myself one novel at a time. He has read every single one of Steven Rowley’s books, which either makes me his biggest fan or legally obligated to be here tonight. Either way, I’m thrilled to be moderating this conversation!
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Tattered Cover Colfax, 2526 East Colfax Avenue, Denver, United States
USD 37.01
