Adult Summer Reading: Author Talk with Maggie Shipstead

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Adult Summer Reading is going on a Virtual Road Trip in 2021! On Tuesday, June 29, 2021, we kicked things off with Barrett Bookstore in an evening with Maggie Shipstead, the bestselling author of Great Circle, Astonish Me, and Seating Arrangements.

About Maggie Shipstead
Maggie Shipstead is the New York Times–bestselling author of the novels Great Circle, Astonish Me, and Seating Arrangements, which won the Dylan Thomas Prize and the L.A. Times Book Prize for First Fiction. She is a graduate of Harvard and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford, and the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. A frequent contributor to travel magazines, she is often away from her home in Los Angeles.

About Great Circle
“Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle is a soaring work of historical fiction and a perfect summer novel.” –Ron Charles, The Washington Post

An unforgettable story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life, at any cost–Great Circle spans Prohibition-era Montana, the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, New Zealand, wartime London, and modern-day Los Angeles.

Epic and emotional, meticulously researched and gloriously told, Great Circle is a monumental work of art, and a tremendous leap forward for the prodigiously gifted Maggie Shipstead.

About Adult Summer Reading
Summer Reading is the ultimate escape and we invite all of our adult patrons to join us for a „Literary Road Trip“ with reading challenges, prizes, and special events throughout the summer. Patrons can play online or pick up a game card at the Library’s Welcome Desk. Registration is not required, and patrons can play as many times as they want.