An Evening with Leif Enger | Featured Book "I Cheerfully Refuse"

Name: An Evening with Leif Enger | Featured Book "I Cheerfully Refuse"
Start: 2025-04-22
End: 2025-04-22
Location: City Opera House

Presented By: National Writers Series
Dates: April 22, 2025
Location: City Opera House
106 E Front St
Traverse City, MI 49684
Time: 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Price: Tier One indicates premium seating options with the best views, available on the main floor closest to the stage along with premium sections of the balcony. Tier Two indicates standard seating options, available on the main floor and most of the balcony. Individual Tickets: Tier One: $42.50 Tier Two: $32.50 Admits one person to the live event and each ticket comes with one trade paperback edition of Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse (retail value $18). Signed copies are only available in-person at the live event. Two-Ticket Package Tier One: $69.50 Tier Two: $49.50 This two-ticket option admits two people to the live event and comes with one trade paperback edition of Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse (retail value $18). Perfect for couples or friends who want to share a book together. Signed copies are only available in-person at the live event. Virtual Tickets Even if you can’t make it to the City Opera House, you can still enjoy National Writers Series events from the comfort of your own home on event night or later on-demand when it’s more convenient. Each Virtual Ticket includes a private YouTube link to the event, which begins at 6:50 PM. Virtual audience members can contribute questions to the Q&A through a moderated chat. You have the option to buy the featured book for an additional fee. Shipping is available anywhere in the continental U.S. by our local bookstore partner Horizon Books of downtown Traverse City, Michigan. Actual costs applied at checkout. Signed copies are only available at the live-event. Student Tickets: $10 No age restriction with a valid school ID, student tickets admit one person to the live event. Books are not included. Pay What You Can: National Writers Series is dedicated to providing experiences and events to everyone who seeks them, and in that spirit, we are happy to provide a book to anyone who cannot afford to buy it. Thanks to our generous donors, you may use the code BookChampion (one word) for a complimentary book based on the honor system.
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National Writers Series is pleased to present Leif Enger, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Peace Like a River, in conversation with guest host Doug Stanton, also a bestselling author and NWS co-founder.

Leif will take the stage to talk about I Cheerfully Refuse, his newest book praised by author Kristin Hannah as “my favorite novel of the year.” It is a national bestseller and Amazon’s #9 “Top 20 Book Pick” of the year.

Set in a not-too-distant America, the novel tells the tale of Rainy, who sets sail on Lake Superior in search of his departed, deeply beloved, bookselling wife. On the water, he encounters lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths. On land, he finds increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure, and a lawless society.

Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, he is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. As time passes, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake.

An Evening with Leif Enger | Featured Book "I Cheerfully Refuse"

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