Books Over Drinks with Jeff Zentner

A lyrical, deeply felt story of an artist and the great love that defined his life, set against the electric, delirious backdrop of 1970s New York City and the tumultuous years prior. If you love Taylor Jenkins Reid and and Kristin Hannah, you do not want to miss Books Over Drinks with Jeff Zentner for Love, Like Apples! He will be in conversation with New York Times bestselling author Stephanie Perkins! REVIEWS: “Jeff Zentner knows what a strange vessel the heart can be, and he articulates it perfectly when he writes, ‘it can be full and broken all at once.’ In Love, Like Apples, a powerful look at the hopeful act of making art, Zentner looks to the past, and it’s a testament to his wonderful heart that he can write about love in ways that never shy away from pain but knows so intimately how it can save us. A wonder of a book.”—Kevin Wilson, New York Times bestselling author of Run for the Hills “This is absolutely Jeff Zentner’s best novel yet. Written with extraordinary heart, Love, Like Apples is funny, tender, and the rare kind of story that leads you to a better version of yourself. What a wondrous ode to the undying power of art.” —Amy Jo Burns, author of Wait for Me “Love, Like Apples is an intimate epic of creators and creativity, culture and counterculture, love (of course) and loss, written—beautifully, I might add, sentence by sentence—with a heartfelt earnestness that I found utterly disarming right from the first pages. Jeff Zentner has persuasively brought back to detailed life the final decades of the twentieth century and peopled his novel with an array of characters you’ll find yourself caring about and rooting for.”—Benjamin Dreyer, New York Times bestselling author of Dreyer’s English ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jeff Zentner is the author of Colton Gentry’s Third Act, The Serpent King, which Kirkus Reviews named one of the best books of the 21st Century, as well as In the Wild Light, and more. Among other honors, he has won the ALA’s William C. Morris Award, the Amelia Elizabeth Walden Award twice, the Muriel Becker Award, the International Literacy Association Award, been longlisted twice for the Carnegie Medal, and is a two-time Southern Book Prize finalist and a Tennessee Book Award finalist. Before becoming a writer, he was a musician who recorded with Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, and Debbie Harry. He lives in Nashville. ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER: Stephanie Perkins is the New York Times and international bestselling author of multiple novels, including There’s Someone Inside Your House, Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, and Isla and the Happily Ever After. She has always worked with books—first as a bookseller, then as a librarian, and now as a novelist. Stephanie lives in the mountains of North Carolina with her husband. Every room of their house is painted a different color of the rainbow. Never been to Books Over Drinks? Your ticket includes entry to the event, a signed copy of the featured book, and a signature cocktail/mocktail.