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:20180920T233000Z DTEND:20180921T010000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Cocktail Reception and Book Talk Featuring Rebecca Makkai DESCRIPTION:Join Lake Forest Book Store as we host a cocktail reception and book talk featuring author Rebecca Makkai and her book The Great Believers\n\nTHE GREAT BELIEVERS\n\nViking Press $27.00 (Releases June 19\, 2018)\n\n \n\nThursday\, September 20th at 6:30 PM\n\nat North Shore Distillery\n\n1399 Rockand Road\n\nGreen Oaks\, IL 60048\n\n \n\n$45 individual or $55 per couple\n\nReservations required\, call 847-234-4420\n\nA dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris\, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. In 1985\, Yale Tishman\, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago\, is about to pull off an amazing coup\, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish\, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one\, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico's funeral\, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona\, Nico's little sister. Thirty years later\, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend\, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis\, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world\, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join Lake Forest Book Store as we host a cocktail reception and book talk featuring author Rebecca Makkai and her book The Great Believers

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THE GREAT BELIEVERS
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Viking Press \; $27.00 \; (Releases June 19\, 2018)
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Thursday\, September 20th at 6:30 PM
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at \;North Shore Distillery
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1399 Rockand Road
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Green Oaks\, IL \; 60048
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$45 individual or \;$55 per couple

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Reservations required\, call 847-234-4420

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A dazzling new novel of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss set in 1980s Chicago and contemporary Paris\, by the acclaimed and award-winning author Rebecca Makkai. \;In 1985\, Yale Tishman\, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago\, is about to pull off an amazing coup\, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish\, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one\, his friends are dying and after his friend Nico'\;s funeral\, the virus circles closer and closer to Yale himself. Soon the only person he has left is Fiona\, Nico'\;s little sister. \;Thirty years later\, Fiona is in Paris tracking down her estranged daughter who disappeared into a cult. While staying with an old friend\, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis\, she finds herself finally grappling with the devastating ways AIDS affected her life and her relationship with her daughter. The two intertwining stories take us through the heartbreak of the eighties and the chaos of the modern world\, as both Yale and Fiona struggle to find goodness in the midst of disaster.

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