BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20190424T230000Z DTEND:20190425T000000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Author Andrew Ridker at Lake Forest Book Store DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Andrew Ridker for discussion and signing of his first novel.\n\nTHE ALTRUISTS\n\n \n\nWednesday\, April 24\, 2019 at 6:00 PM\n\nBooks available for purchase and signing\n\nRefreshments will be served\n\nRegister at 847-234-4420\n\nArthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college\, he can't afford his mortgage\, he's exasperated his much-younger girlfriend\, and his kids won't speak to him. And then there's the money--the small fortune his late wife\, Francine\, kept secret\, which she bequeathed directly to his children. Those children are Ethan\, an anxious recluse living off his mother's money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate\, and Maggie\, a would-be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family home\, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so\, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora's box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories--memories that orbit Francine\, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together. Spanning New York\, Paris\, Boston\, St. Louis\, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe\, The Altruists is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga that confronts the divide between baby boomers and their millennial offspring. It's a novel about money\, privilege\, politics\, campus culture\, dating\, talk therapy\, rural sanitation\, infidelity\, kink\, the American beer industry\, and what it means to be a "good person."\n\nAndrew Ridker was born in 1991. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review Daily\, Guernica\, Boston Review\, The Believer\, and St. Louis Magazine\; and he is the editor of Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics. He is the recipient of an Iowa Arts Fellowship from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. The Altruists is his first novel. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us as we welcome \;Andrew Ridker for discussion and signing of his first novel.

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THE ALTRUISTS
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Wednesday\, April 24\, 2019 at 6:00 PM
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Books available for purchase and signing

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Refreshments will be served

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Register at 847-234-4420

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Arthur Alter is in trouble. A middling professor at a Midwestern college\, he can'\;t afford his mortgage\, he'\;s exasperated his much-younger girlfriend\, and his kids won'\;t speak to him. And then there'\;s the money--the small fortune his late wife\, Francine\, kept secret\, which she bequeathed directly to his children. \;Those children are Ethan\, an anxious recluse living off his mother'\;s money on a choice plot of Brooklyn real estate\, and Maggie\, a would-be do-gooder trying to fashion herself a noble life of self-imposed poverty. On the verge of losing the family home\, Arthur invites his children back to St. Louis under the guise of a reconciliation. But in doing so\, he unwittingly unleashes a Pandora'\;s box of age-old resentments and long-buried memories--memories that orbit Francine\, the matriarch whose life may hold the key to keeping them together. \;Spanning New York\, Paris\, Boston\, St. Louis\, and a small desert outpost in Zimbabwe\, \;The Altruists \;is a darkly funny (and ultimately tender) family saga that confronts the divide between baby boomers and their millennial offspring. It'\;s a novel about money\, privilege\, politics\, campus culture\, dating\, talk therapy\, rural sanitation\, infidelity\, kink\, the American beer industry\, and what it means to be a "\;good person."\;

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Andrew Ridker was born in 1991. His writing has appeared in \;The New York Times Magazine\, The Paris Review Daily\, Guernica\, Boston Review\, The Believer\, \;and \;St. Louis Magazine\; and he is the editor of \;Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics. He is the recipient of an Iowa Arts Fellowship from the Iowa Writers'\; Workshop. \;The Altruists \;is his first novel.

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