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Laguna Beach Books Virtual Event with Author Sue Miller

09.10.20

You are invited to join Laguna Beach Books for a virtual event on Friday, Sept. 11 from 5 to 6 p.m. with Sue Miller in conversation with Marrie Stone. She will be discussing her new book, Monogamy. This is a free event. To register, visit: here.

About Monogamy:

A brilliantly insightful novel, engrossing and haunting, about marriage, love, family, happiness and sorrow, from New York Times bestselling author Sue Miller.

Graham and Annie have been married for nearly thirty years. A golden couple, their seemingly effortless devotion has long been the envy of their circle of friends and acquaintances.

Graham is a bookseller, a big, gregarious man with large appetites — curious, eager to please, a lover of life, and the convivial host of frequent, lively parties at his and Annie’s comfortable house in Cambridge. Annie, more reserved and introspective, is a photographer. She is about to have her first gallery show after a six-year lull and is worried that the best years of her career may be behind her. They have two adult children; Lucas, Graham’s son with his first wife, Frieda, works in New York. Annie and Graham’s daughter, Sarah, lives in San Francisco. Though Frieda is an integral part of this far-flung, loving family, Annie feels confident in the knowledge that she is Graham’s last and greatest love.

When Graham suddenly dies — this man whose enormous presence has seemed to dominate their lives together — Annie is lost. What is the point of going on, she wonders, without him? Then, while she is still mourning him intensely, she discovers that Graham had been unfaithful to her; and she spirals into darkness, wondering if she ever truly knew the man who loved her.

Both critically acclaimed and loved by readers, Sue Miller is recognized internationally for her elegant and sharply realistic accounts of the contemporary family. Her numerous honors include a Guggenheim and a Radcliffe Institute Fellowship. Her previous books have been widely translated and published in 22 countries around the world, and include While I Was Gone, The Distinguished Guest, For Love, Family Pictures, Inventing the Abbotts, and The Good Mother. She has taught fiction at, among others, Amherst, Tufts, Boston University, Smith, and MIT. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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NEWPORT BEACH GARDEN TOUR ART EXHIBITION & SALE AT SHERMAN LIBRARY & GARDENS

09.10.20

Take home an original work of garden-inspired art from this year’s Newport Beach Garden Tour on display through September 16 and support Sherman Library & Gardens!

Every year the Newport Beach Garden Tour features an “Artist in the Garden” at each private residence on the tour. The artists capture points of interest throughout their assigned gardens. The finished works of this year’s eight hand-selected artists are on display inside Café Jardin at Sherman Library & Gardens.

Artists include Andrea Holte, Cathy Hull, Mike Ishikawa, Jai Kim, Carol Kreider, Yuma Lynch, Ellen Small, and Lesa Vander Bie.

Proceeds from sales of the artwork will benefit children’s education programs at Sherman Library & Gardens.

Now through September 16, open daily 10:30 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Sherman Library & Gardens is located at 2647 E. Coast Hwy. in Corona del Mar.949.673.2261 or visit thesherman.org

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