Remember You Will Die with author Eden Robins

Eden Robins will read from her new book Remember You Will Die. Paul Park will engage her in conversation. The Williams Bookstore will have books for sale on-site. Payment must be by credit card. REMEMBER YOU WILL DIE “Can the absence of words tell a story? Like a pattern in lace, the holes as important as the threads?” A search. A puzzle. Sixty protagonists—all of whom are dead. Told entirely through obituaries and ricocheting through time, Remember You Will Die is an innovative, genre-bending epic about the messy tapestry of human history and the threads that connect us, through the eyes of Peregrine, an AI mother, grappling with the unexpected death of her human daughter, Poppy. From the newspaper clippings of individual lives emerges something else unexpected: generations entwined through blood and art and the consequences of their actions, betrayals and redemptions that traverse our dying world and beyond. Spanning continents, centuries, planets, and genres, and centering a diverse mix of human experiences, Remember You Will Die is a provocative exploration of who we are and what we could be. "A reminder, spelled out in boldface, of the remarkable tenacity of life." —Wall Street Journal "Kaleidoscopic…a fascinating and fresh reading experience." —Chicago Reader "Eden Robins has written a smashingly good second novel, an utterly imaginative, genre-defying masterpiece." -- Shelf Awareness Eden Robins is the author of the new novel Remember You Will Die, and her debut novel, When Franny Stands Up, was named a best book of 2022 by the Chicago Reader and a best queer book of 2022 by Autostraddle. She was an Illinois Arts Council Fellow in Literature in 2023, and also writes short stories, personal essays, and cultural criticism at places like Slate, Catapult, USA Today, LA Review of Books, Apex magazine, Shimmer, and others. Previously, she sold sex toys, wrote jokes for Big Pharma and an AI chatbot, and once did a stand-up comedy set to an audience who didn't boo. She lives in North Adams, has been to the bottom of the ocean, and will never go to space. Find out more scintillating tidbits at monkeythumbs.com or on Instagram @edenrobins. Paul Park is the author of a dozen novels and three collections of short stories. Since his retirement from the Williams College English Department, he has been working on a series of screenplays for SunHaus Pictures.PT1H2024-12-02Remember You Will Die with author Eden Robins"Remember You Will Die with author Eden Robins"

Showtimes

December 2, 7:30 pm