Author Event: Holly Gramazio
FREE EVENT
6:30 pm, Wednesday 26 February
Marion Cultural Centre
287 Diagonal Road,
Oaklands Park SA 5046
08 8375 6855
We are excited to announce our first event for 2025 with local author turned Londonite, Holly Gramazio. Her NYT bestselling debut novel, The Husbands, is by turns hilarious and thoughtful. Come along to hear her chat with Amy T Matthews about her debut novel.
When Lauren returns home to her flat in London late one night, she is greeted at the door by her husband, Michael. There’s only one problem—she’s not married. She’s never seen this man before in her life. But according to her friends, her much-improved decor, and the photos on her phone, they’ve been together for years.
As Lauren tries to puzzle out how she could be married to someone she can’t remember meeting, Michael goes to the attic to change a light bulb and abruptly disappears. In his place, a new man emerges, and a new, slightly altered life re-forms around her. Realising that her attic is creating an infinite supply of husbands, Lauren confronts the question: if swapping lives is as easy as changing a light bulb, how do you know you’ve taken the right path? When do you stop trying to do better and start actually living?
The Husbands was a New York Times bestseller, and was named a best book of 2024 by NPR, the Washington Post, Parade, Stylist and the Sunday Times.
We request that you register for this free event through Eventbrite or on the phone number above.
In Conversation: Hossein Asgari
$15 ticket // Adelaide Uni students free
5:30 pm, Thursday 27 February
Adelaide University
North Terrace
126 Piper Alderman Moot Court (Ligertwood Building)
Adelaide SA 5000
Join Miles Franklin nominee Hossein Asgari in conversation with our very own Annie Waters at the Adelaide University for a thoughtful journey into Asgari’s moving, poetic work.
Saeed has not returned to Iran after publishing his novel The Imaginary Narrative of a Real Murder for fear of political persecution. He is surprised when Ismael, his father who has never left Iran, announces that he is travelling to Adelaide to visit him. During his short stay, Ismael tells Saeed the story of his unrequited love for Forugh Farrokhzad—the most controversial poet of modern Iran. The story makes Saeed see his father in a new light, and leaves him with the haunting question: had his father, unwittingly, played a role in Forugh’s death?
Brought to you by The Friends of the Library; please arrive at 5:30pm, in conversation begins at 6pm.
Book Launch: Carol Lefevre
6:00 pm, Thursday 3 April
Mezzanine 55
55 Rundle St
Kent Town SA 5067
Carol Lefevre’s new book is a gorgeous, optimistic and eloquent coming-of-old-age book for anyone who wants to embrace a late-life flourishing. We are delighted to help launch this book alongside the stunning interior artwork of Margaret Ambridge.
It is daunting to grow old in a time and place that does not value old people, but the age group known as Boomers should not be so easily dismissed. They marched against the Vietnam War and were the first generation to be liberated by the contraceptive pill from the fear of unwanted pregnancy. Their teenage years were fuelled by protest songs and peace-and-love idealism, and many are still engaged in forms of activism.
Framed by the turning of the seasons in her small suburban garden, Carol Lefevre’s Bloomer documents the year in which she turned seventy. Memoir threads through meditations on aspects of ageing, from its hidden grief and potential for loneliness to our relationship with the past and with our own mortality. In this gorgeous, optimistic and eloquent coming-of-old-age book, Boomers emerge as Bloomers – people not at the end of things but still on their way, ready to embrace a late-life flourishing.
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