Jonathan Evison

This Is Your Life, Harriet Chance

Bestselling author Evison speaks about his new novel, the story of 78-year-old Harriet Chance, who embarks on an Alaskan cruise planned by her recently deceased husband and must suddenly confront the truth about pivotal events that changed her life. It’s described as a bighearted novel with an endearing heroine, a tale of acceptance, reexamination, and forgiveness.

Location: Street: Highland Park Public Library, 494 Laurel City: Highland Park, Province: Illinois Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

The revised fundamentals of caregiving by Jonathan Evison is the August pick for the Park Road Books Book Club. Jonathan Evison has crafted a novel of the heart, a novel of unlikely heroes traveling through a grand American landscape, and most of all, a story that offers a profound look into what it takes to truly care for another person. Bursting with energy and filled with moments of absolute beauty, this bighearted and inspired novel ponders life s terrible surprises as well as its immeasurable rewards. Book club participants will receive 20% off the $14.95 price.

The Park Road Books Book Club is held at the store on the first Tuesday of each month at 6:30 pm. Stop by August 6and join in the discussion.

Location: Street: 4139 Park Road Additional: Park Road Shopping Center City: Charlotte, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28209-2229 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Join us for the next meeting of the Phoenix Books Burlington Reading Group! We'll discuss The revised fundamentals of caregiving by Jonathan Evison.

Register for the reading group in person at Phoenix Books Burlington and get 15% off the current book club pick! (Drop-ins are welcome too, so don't be shy!)

*Some exclusions apply.

Location: Street: 191 Bank Street Additional: City: Burlington, Province: Vermont Postal Code: 05401 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Village Books is hosting Booktopia 2013, a weekend retreat for listeners of Books on the Nightstand, which is about connecting readers with authors, and connecting readers with readers. Although Booktopia retreat registration is full, the community is invited to a free celebration of authors in the Readings Gallery of Village Books. Come listen to these authors talk about their books and writing: Peter Clines, Ex Heroes; Jonathan Evison, The revised fundamentals of caregiving; Ru Freeman, On Sal Mal Lane; Caroline Leavitt, Is this tomorrow; Rhonda Riley, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope; Jan-Philipp Sendker, The art of hearing heartbeats; and Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements.

About the authors:

Peter Clines, Ex-Heroes: Peter Clines has written a "superheroes vs. zombies" novel that is original, fun, and incredibly well-told. Much like Ready Player One, this is a novel that goes far beyond the genre into which it was published, and it can be enjoyed by many different types of readers. The heroes in this book are real people with real problems of loss, relationships and fear.

Jonathan Evison, The revised fundamentals of caregiving: Down on his luck, Benjamin Benjamin takes a class to learn how to be a caregiver, and finds a job caring for Trev, a 19 year old with muscular dystrophy. Their relationship, and the road trip that they take together, is at the center of the novel, which is by turns tragic and funny.

Ru Freeman, On Sal Mal Lane: This is a lush, brilliant novel of childhood in Sri Lanka in the time just before the outbreak of the 26-year Sri Lankan civil war. Ru is the author of the novel, A disobedient girl.

Caroline Leavitt, Is this tomorrow: In this, Leavitt's tenth novel, a 12 year-old boy goes missing from a Boston suburb, and this affects an entire community. It is at once a mystery, a family story, and a novel of 1950s suburbia. Leavitt is author of the novel, Pictures of you.

Rhonda Riley, The Enchanted Life of Adam Hope: An unconventional and passionately romantic love story that is as breathtaking and wondrous as The Time Traveler's Wife. During World War II, Evelyn Roe is sent to manage the family farm in rural North Carolina, where she finds what she takes to be a badly burned soldier on their property. It quickly becomes clear he is not a man . . . and not normal.

Jan-Philipp Sendker, The art of hearing heartbeats: After a successful New York lawyer suddenly disappears without a trace, neither his wife nor his daughter Julia has any idea where he might be, until they find a love letter he wrote many years ago, to a Burmese woman they have never heard of.

Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements: A satirical novel about a pre-wedding weekend and all the craziness that weddings bring out in friends and family members, especially when that family is an upper-class old-money New England clan.

Location: Street: 1200 11th St City: Bellingham, Province: Washington Postal Code: 98225-7015 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Jonathan Evison’s lively and soulful novel The revised fundamentals of caregiving follows a teenager with muscular dystrophy and his caregiver as they venture out on a hair-raising road trip across the American West, inviting us to ponder life’s terrible surprises and the heart’s ability to heal.

Location: Street: 55 Haywood St City: Asheville, Province: North Carolina Postal Code: 28801 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

Jonathan Evison - The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving — at Comet Ping Pong (Tuesday, April 30 at 7pm)
Join us for an evening of books, live music, pizza, and ping pong as we celebrate the paperback release of this critically-acclaimed novel of unlikely heroes in a story that offers a profound look into what it takes to truly care for another person.

This event is free and open to the public. Books will be for sale at the event.

Street: Comet Ping Pong Additional: 5037 Connecticut Avenue NW City: Washington, Province: District Of Columbia Postal Code: 20008 Country: United States (added from IndieBound) (MDGentleReader)… (més)

4/22/13 UPDATE: Yes, the "Biggest Pit in the World," Kennecott Copper Mine, is currently closed due to the massive "slope movement" event. We'll be getting as close as we can, visiting the historic town, Copperton. Wednesday, April 24, 6 p.m. GET IN THE VAN with Johnathan Evison, author of The revised fundamentals of caregiving, for a trip to fill in the blank. "Jonny" will act as your "tour guide," reading from the novel and discussing the road trip that makes up part of the narrative. Beverages and refreshments will be served!

So reserve your spot TODAY for this FREE trip. Call 801-484-9100 or email jenny@kingsenglish.com with your name, phone number and number of people in your party.

Maximum of 4 reservations per person; space is limited.

Evison is the also the author of West of Here, a New York Times bestselling novel and All About Lulu, which won the Washington State Book Award. He lives on an island in western Washington.

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Location: Street: 1511 South 1500 East City: Salt Lake City, Province: Utah Postal Code: 84105 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)

And now for something completely different...

We are really excited to announce our first ever author event at Ska Brewing Company World Headquarters, home to yummy local beer and happening happenings like Happy Hour Yoga and Super Ted's Super Trivia.

We've invited our friends Durango Herald Arts & Entertainment Editor Ted Holteen and KDUR Station Manager Bryant Liggett to have a round with novelist Jonathan Evison while the rest of us listen in (and maybe toss a question or two their way, too). It's bound to be an enteratining conversation, given the collective cool of these three.

Have a look at Evison's "training program" for his latest book tour in this video below, and you might just see why we thought this a clever idea:

Evison is on tour for the paperback release of The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving, a big-hearted and inspired novel that ponders life’s terrible surprises and the heart’s uncanny capacity to mend.

In this new novel, Jonathan Evison, author of the New York Times bestseller West of Here, has crafted a story that is as grounded in the stark reality of its characters' struggles as it is filled with the kind of hopeful joy that enables them to make it from one day to the next. A novel of the heart, a novel of unlikely heroes in a grand American landscape, it is most of all a profound look into what it takes to truly care for one another.

For Ben Benjamin, all has been lost—his wife, his family, his home, his livelihood. Hoping to find a new direction, he has enrolled in a night class called the Fundamentals of Caregiving. There he learns the basics of the art of inserting catheters while avoiding liability, and he is instructed about professionalism and how to keep an emotional distance between client and provider. But when Ben is assigned his first client—a tyrannical nineteen-year-old boy named Trevor who is in the advanced stages of Duchenne muscular dystrophy—he soon discovers that the endless service checklists have done nothing to prepare him for the reality of caring for a fiercely stubborn, sexually frustrated teenager who has an ax to grind with the whole world.

Over time, the relationship between Ben and Trev, which had begun with mutual misgivings, evolves into a close friendship, and the traditional boundaries between patient and caregiver begin to blur. The bond between them strengthens while on a road trip to visit Trev's ailing father—a journey diverted by a series of bizarre must-see roadside attractions that propels them into an impulsive adventure disrupted by one birth, two arrests, a freakish dust storm, and a six-hundred-mile cat-and-mouse pursuit by a mysterious brown Buick Skylark. By the end of that journey, Trev has had his first taste of love, and Ben has found a new reason to love life.

Jonathan Evison lives on an island on the coast of Washington State. His first novel, All about Lulu, won the Washington State Book Award. This is his third novel. Read a much fuller (and more entertaining) bio here on his website.

Location: Street: Ska Brewing Company World Headquarters Additional: 225 Girard Street City: Durango, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 81301-5122 Country: United States (afegit de IndieBound)… (més)