Thursday, October 20, 2022 From 6:30 PM To 8:00 PM Add to Calendar 2022-10-20 18:30:00 2022-10-20 20:00:00 Author Talk with Joshua Kent Bookman, Author of To: All The Friends I Killed The French Library is pleased to welcome Joshua Kent Bookman, a Bostonian author and globetrotter, for a discussion of his second novel, To: All The Friends I Killed. French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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About the Book
After the death of his best friend, a young man vanishes from the United States, seeking a fresh start in France. He stumbles upon work at a vineyard and thinks he has found a way out in a land of ancestral beauty. But he quickly discovers Europe alone can’t solve his problems. Haunted by his past, he has to come to terms with his own and his society’s expectations of adulthood. Dark enchanted truths about love and friendship complicate the story of how he lost his best friend — a sister, a girlfriend, and a lodestar.In this coming-of-age novel, we are faced with the life choices of the millennial generation, the postponement of traditional benchmarks in our twenties, and the queer or asexual attitude towards contemporary loneliness.
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