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JOYCE MAYNARD, Author of The Best of Us: A Memoir, in conversation with ROLAND MERULLO

October 11, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm

Free

Newtonville Books presents JOYCE MAYNARD and ROLAND MERULLO on October 11, 2017! This event is free to attend.

In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author and journalist JOYCE MAYNARD  met the first true partner she had ever known. Jim wore a rakish hat over a good head of hair; he asked real questions and gave real answers; he loved to see Joyce shine, both in and out of the spotlight; and he didn’t mind the mess she made in the kitchen. He was not the husband Joyce imagined, but he quickly became the partner she had always dreamed of.

Before they met, both had believed they were done with marriage, and even after they married, JOYCE resolved that no one could alter her course of determined independence. Then, just after their one-year wedding anniversary, her new husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. During the nineteen months that followed, as they battled his illness together, she discovered for the first time what it really meant to be a couple–to be a true partner and to have one.

This is their story. Charting the course through their whirlwind romance, a marriage cut short by tragedy, and JOYCE’s return to singleness on new terms, The Best of Us is a heart-wrenching, ultimately life-affirming reflection on coming to understand true love through the experience of great loss.

JOYCE MAYNARD is the author of sixteen books including the novels To Die For and Labor Day (both adapted for film) and the bestselling memoir At Home in the World. Her essays and columns have appeared in dozens of publications and numerous collections. She is a frequent performer with The Moth, a fellow of the MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and founder of the Lake Atitlan Writers’ Workshop. She is the mother of three grown children, and makes her home in Lafayette, California.

ROLAND MERULLO is a bestselling author, most recently of The Delight of Being Ordinary: A Road Trip with the Pope and the Dalai Lama.

Venue

Newtonville Books
10 Langley Road
Newton Center, MA 02459 United States
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Phone:
617-244-6615
Website:
www.newtonvillebooks.com

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