SLCL Authors @ the J Presents Bestselling Novelist Katherine Center
July 5, 2023
SLCL Authors @ the J Presents Bestselling Novelist Katherine Center
St. Louis County Library Foundation, the Novel Neighbor, and the JCC of St. Louis are pleased to host an SLCL Authors @ the J event with bestselling novelist Katherine Center, author of “Hello Stranger.”
The event will take place on Tuesday, July 18, at 7:00 p.m. at the JCC’s Staenberg Family Center – Mirowitz Performing Arts Center, 2 Millstone Campus Drive, St. Louis, MO 63146.
The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from The Novel Neighbor.
Love isn’t blind, it’s just a little blurry.
Sadie Montgomery never saw what was coming . . . Literally! One minute she’s celebrating the biggest achievement of her life—placing as a finalist in the North American Portrait Society competition—the next, she’s lying in a hospital bed diagnosed with a “probably temporary” condition known as face blindness. She can see, but every face she looks at is now a jumbled puzzle of disconnected features. Imagine trying to read a book upside down and in another language. This is Sadie’s new reality with every face she sees.
But, as she struggles to cope, hang on to her artistic dream, work through major family issues, and take care of her beloved dog, Peanut, she falls in love with not one man but two very different ones. The timing couldn’t be worse.
If only her life were a little more in focus, Sadie might be able to find her way. But perceiving anything clearly right now seems impossible.
BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She’s the New York Times bestselling author of over half a dozen books, including “How to Walk Away,” “Things You Save in a Fire,” and “What You Wish For.” Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down—and how we get back up. She’s been compared to both Jane Austen and Nora Ephron, and the Dallas Morning News calls her stories, “satisfying in the most soul-nourishing way.”
The movie adaptation of Katherine’s novel “The Lost Husband” (starring Josh Duhamel) hit #1 on Netflix, and her novel “Happiness for Beginners” is in production now as a Netflix original starring Ellie Kemper.
Program sites are accessible. With at least two weeks' notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Call 314-994-3300 or contact us.
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