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A Novel Idea Author Emily Habeck at Caldera High School
Saturday, June 01, 2024
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location
Bend
Caldera High School
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Join us for the final Novel Idea 2024 event.
Tickets for the event are sold out. There will be a standby line for folks without tickets. We will seat as many people as possible in any unclaimed seats starting at 5:55 p.m.
About the Author:
Emily Habeck has a BFA in Theater from Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts, as well as master's degrees from Vanderbilt Divinity School and Vanderbilt's Peabody College. Her debut novel
Shark Heart: A love Story
was a Book of the Month selection, a New York Times book review editor's choice, and the #1 Indie Next pick for August 2023. She is from Ardmore, Oklahoma and currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
About the Book:
A gorgeous debut novel of marriage, motherhood, metamorphosis, and letting go, this intergenerational love story begins with newlyweds Wren and her husband, Lewis - a man who, over the course of nine months, transforms into a great white shark.
For Lewis and Wren, their first year of marriage is also their last. A few weeks after their wedding, Lewis receives a rare diagnosis. He will retain most of his consciousness, memories, and intellect, but his physical body will gradually turn into a great white shark. As Lewis develops the features and impulses of one of the most predatory creatures in the ocean, his complicated artist's heart struggles to make peace with his unfulfilled dreams.
At first, Wren internally resists her husband's fate. Is there a way for them to be together after Lewis changes? Then, a glimpse of Lewis' developing carnivorous nature activates long-repressed memories for Wren, whose story vacillates between her childhood living on a houseboat in Oklahoma, her time with a college ex-girlfriend, and her unusual friendship with a woman pregnant with twin birds. Woven throughout this bold novel is the story of Wren's mother, Angela, who becomes pregnant with Wren at fifteen in an abusive relationship amidst her parents' crumbling marriage. In the present, all of Wren's grief eventually collides, and she is forced to make an impossible choice.
A sweeping love story that is at once lyrical and funny, airy and visceral, Shark Heart is an unforgettable novel about life's perennial questions, the fragility of memories, finding joy amidst grief, and creating a meaningful life. This daring debut marks the arrival of a wildly talented new writer abounding with originality, humor, and heart.
60925 SE 15th St, Bend, OR 97702
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Emily Habeck
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Liz Goodrich |
lizg@dpls.lib.or.us
| 541-312-1032
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