Tenderness: A Discussion with Rowan Beaird at The Book Stall

The Book Stall is excited to welcome Rowan Beaird to the store on Thursday, September 10 at 6:30 pm for a discussion featuring her new book, Tenderness. From the beloved author of The Divorcées comes a novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the bride, Shay, has recently left a sinister cult that might still be trailing her. Told from the interwoven perspectives of Shay’s brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, Tenderness is a slow-burn mystery that excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. Ms. Beaird will be in-conversation with author Lindsay Hunter. 

Rowan Beaird is the author of the novels Tenderness and The Divorcées. Her fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, Ploughshares, and Gulf Coast. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter.

Lindsay Hunter received her MFA in Writing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her first book, Daddy’s, is a collection of flash fiction. Her second collection, Don't Kiss Me, was named one of Amazon’s 10 Best Books of the Year: Short Stories. Her first novel, Ugly Girls, was called by The Huffington Post “a story that hits a note that’s been missing from the chorus of existing feminist literature.” Her latest novel, Eat Only When You’re Hungry, was a Book of the Month Club selection, a finalist for the 2017 Chicago Review of Books Fiction Award, and a 2017 NPR Great Read. She produces and hosts the podcast I’m a Writer But, a series about writers with kids, jobs, and/or lives, and how they make it all work (or don’t). Lindsay’s fifth book, a novel titled Hot Springs Drive, is out now and was named one of the 12 Best Thrillers of the Year by the Washington Post. She lives in Chicago with her family.