Join us at Little Jumbo for CRAFT: Authors in Conversation, a series conceived and hosted by New York Times bestselling author Denise Kiernan. On September 14th, Denise's guest will be Thomas Calder, author of The Wind Under the Door and managing editor of Mountain Xpress.
Doors open at 4:00 PM. Conversation starts no later than 4:30 PM. Seating is first come, first served. No registration is required.
Little Jumbo staff creates a specialty cocktail or mocktail for each CRAFT event.
Little Jumbo offers free parking at 5 Points Restaurant across Broadway. There is also street parking nearby. Find more information at denisekiernan.com/craft.
The Wind Under the Door
Starting over is always easier among strangers. For Ford Carson, the process meant leaving behind the waves of South Florida in order to forge a new life as a visual artist in the mountains of North Carolina. At the peak of his reinvention, he meets Grace Burnett—a young, wealthy Texas transplant in the midst of her own transformation. A mutual infatuation develops. But when Grace’s estranged husband arrives complications ensue. Matters only worsen when Ford’s own estranged son announces plans to visit for his eighteenth birthday. Thomas Calder’s debut novel explores the lasting impact of broken bonds and the unanticipated ways the past haunts those on the run.
Featuring
Denise Kiernan is an author, journalist, producer, and host of “CRAFT: Authors in Conversation.” Her new young reader’s book, We Gather Together: Stories of Thanksgiving from then to now, arrived September 2023, and is a companion title to the popular adult nonfiction book, We Gather Together, and children’s picture book, Giving Thanks. Her book The Last Castle was an instant New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback and was also a Wall Street Journal bestseller. She is also the author of The Girls of Atomic City, which is a New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and NPR bestseller and has been published in multiple languages. She lives in North Carolina.
Thomas Calder is the author of The Wind Under the Door. He earned his MFA in creative writing from the University of Houston. His work has appeared in Juked, Gulf Coast, Miracle Monocle, The Collagist and elsewhere. He lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and daughter.
Admission
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