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Jodi Picoult Presents “A Spark of Light” at Garde Arts Center New London

September 22, 2019 @ 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Jodi Picoult Presents “A Spark of Light” will be held on September 22nd from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm at the Garde Arts Center in New London.

The Garde Arts Center and Bank Square Books present an evening with bestselling author Jodi Picoult to discuss A Spark of Light, a powerful and provocative new novel about ordinary lives that intersect during a heart-stopping crisis, described by the Washington Post as “Picoult at her fearless best.”

Jodi Picoult Presents "A Spark of Light" at Garde Arts Center New London

Tickets for this event include assigned seating and a signed paperback copy of A Spark of Light, along with the opportunity to meet Jodi after the event and get your photo taken with her. Additional books will be available for purchase at the event. Please note that Jodi will not be personalizing books at this event.

About Jodi Picoult
Jodi Picoult is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, and My Sister’s Keeper. She is also the author, with daughter Samantha van Leer, of two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. Picoult lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.

About A Spark of Light
The warm fall day starts like any other at the Center—a women’s reproductive health services clinic—its staff offering care to anyone who passes through its doors. Then, in late morning, a desperate and distraught gunman bursts in and opens fire, taking all inside hostage.

After rushing to the scene, Hugh McElroy, a police hostage negotiator, sets up a perimeter and begins making a plan to communicate with the gunman. As his phone vibrates with incoming text messages he glances at it and, to his horror, finds out that his fifteen-year-old daughter, Wren, is inside the clinic.

But Wren is not alone. She will share the next and tensest few hours of her young life with a cast of unforgettable characters: A nurse who calms her own panic in order to save the life of a wounded woman. A doctor who does his work not in spite of his faith but because of it, and who will find that faith tested as never before. A pro-life protester, disguised as a patient, who now stands in the crosshairs of the same rage she herself has felt. A young woman who has come to terminate her pregnancy. And the disturbed individual himself, vowing to be heard.

Told in a daring and enthralling narrative structure that counts backward through the hours of the standoff, this is a story that traces its way back to what brought each of these very different individuals to the same place on this fateful day.

Details

Date:
September 22, 2019
Time:
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
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Website:
https://www.facebook.com/events/362957587722679/

Venue

Garde Arts Center
325 State Street New London, CT 06320
New London, CT 06320
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Phone
(860) 444-7373