Author Visit - Sarah K. Lenz
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Friday, Aug 4, 2023 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Location
Francie & Finch Bookshop
Category
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Join us for this reading and book signing.
Books will be available for purchase at the event.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
There are reminders everywhere that we—and everyone we love—will die. In this memoir-in-essays, Sarah K. Lenz explores moments when death drew near. She deftly weaves stories from a chorus of voices foretelling mortality: "Here's where I want you to spread my ashes when I die.” “There’s been a fire. I couldn’t see who the EMTs loaded into the ambulance.” “Your three great uncles were killed by the same strike of lightning.” “You have a carcinoma. I’m sorry, it’s not what we were expecting.” “The police just shot and killed that man. Look, there’s a bullet hole in your car.”
These moments--though scary--also reveal the sublime, calling us to see how beauty everywhere. Lenz shows her reader that gratitude and redemption exist in painful places, our legacies form from unlikely fragments, and that love, being ever tangled up with loss, outlasts most things.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Sarah K. Lenz grew up in central Nebraska. Her creative nonfiction has appeared in Colorado Review, New Letters, Triquarterly, The Fourth River, Pen Dust Radio and elsewhere. Her work has been named Notable in Best American Essays three times. Sarah is the founder of Writers’ Studio Corpus Christi, a creative writing center and an Assistant Professor of English at Del Mar College in Texas where she lives with her husband, son, and twelve typewriters.
