Wally Lamb Coming to Barrington Books

Acclaimed author Wally Lamb is coming to Barrington Books alongside the release of his new novel, We are Water, in paperback next week.

Tickets are on sale for the Aug. 16 event at 2 p.m. -- the cost of the softcover book.

Lamb will offer a book discussion in the store’s adjacent event space before the book signing. Seating is limited, so call 401-245-7925 or visit barringtonbooks.com to reserve space.

Lamb is the author of four previous novels and the editor of Couldn’t Keep it to Myself and I’ll Fly Away, two volumes of essays from students in his writing workshop at York Correctional Institution, a women’s prison in Connecticut. At the prison, he’s been a volunteer for 15 years.

His first two novels, She’s Come Undone and I Know This Much is True, were both No 1. New York Times Best Sellers.

in We are Water, readers are given a “richly-layered exploration of a complicated family navigating dramatic changes in the present as it struggles to make sense of a thorny past,” the bookstore said in a release. “Epic in scope, yet intimate in its deep probing of its characters’ inner lives, Lamb’s latest work bears all of the hallmarks that have made his books—from She’s Come Undone to The Hour I First Believed—beloved contemporary classics.”