About this Event
The Book Stall welcomes bestselling author Robert Kolker for a discussion featuring his new book, The Vanishing Family: Love, Fate, and the Quest to End Dementia. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road comes the heart-wrenching journey of a family facing an unthinkable destiny, whose flawed genetic code might hold the long-sought key to a cure for dementia. Moving, intimate, unexpectedly hopeful and redemptive, The Vanishing Family is an enthralling narrative about one family’s fate, and a medical detective story that speaks to all of us who fear losing ourselves at the end. Mr. Kolker will be in-conversation with Alex Kotlowitz.
Tickets include a copy of the book. Book signing to follow.
Robert Kolker is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Hidden Valley Road, named an Oprah’s Book Club Pick, a New York Times Book Review Top 10 book of the year, a GQ Best Book of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century, and a Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century. His first book was Lost Girls, named a New York Times Notable Book and a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2013.
Alex Kotlowitz is the author of four books, including his most recent, An American Summer, which received the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. His first book, the national bestseller There Are No Children Here, was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the 150 most important books of the twentieth century. The Other Side of the River received The Chicago Tribune’s Heartland Prize for Nonfiction. Alex’s work has regularly appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and on This American Life. His honors include two Peabodys, a George Polk Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the Harold Washington Literary Award. The American Academy of Arts and Letters honored him for his books and journalism which “illuminate astonishing national inequities through the lens of individual experience.”
Event venue & nearby stays
The Book Stall, 811 Elm Street, Winnetka, United States
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