Oct
6
11:00pm
Joshua Ferris: A Calling
By TPLCulture
From National Book Award Finalist, Joshua Ferris (The Dinner Party), comes a "compassionate" novel about a modern American family and a man on a secret mission to uncover the world's hidden truths—until his two lives come crashing together. The story of the life of Charlie Barnes isn’t going well. Divorced and discontent with life's compromises, in a house he hates, this lifelong schemer and eternal romantic would like to live the American dream. But when the twin calamities of the Great Recession and a cancer scare come along to compound his troubles, his dreams dwindle further, and an infinite past full of forking paths quickly tapers to a black dot. Then, against all odds, Charlie is granted a second act. A Calling for Charlie Barnes is a profound and tender portrait of a man whose desperate need to be loved is his downfall, and a brutally funny account of how that love is ultimately earned.
Joshua Ferris talks with David Bezmozgis (Immigrant City) about A Calling for Charlie Barnes and a man on a secret mission to uncover the world's hidden truths.
About this event’s guests:
Joshua Ferris
David Bezmozgis
Author photo courtesy of Peter Aaron.
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