Erin Pringle brings Unexpected Weather Events to Indy Reads: April 7th, 2024

I'm excited to say that I'll be sharing Unexpected Weather Events in Indianapolis this April! I'll read from the book followed by a Q&A and book-signing. I've always wanted to read in Indy, not only because it's one of the nearest cities to where I grew up, but also because my best friend grew up there and when I met her in college, Indy became my favorite place. I wrote the story "A Game of Telephone" in Unexpected Weather Events after she died, as it was one of the ways I coped with the loss--by embedding the grief in familiar games or folk stories, rewriting them from an angle that I needed to now understand. 

The book event will be hosted by Indy Reads, a non-profit organization with a mission to support literacy, create community, and provide opportunities to strengthen oneself and others. They run a bookstore and provide workshops, tutoring, conversation circles, author events, and many more positive opportunities. I'm so honored to take a part in their mission, if only for a few hours, and I'm looking forward to learning more--so I hope that you can attend and learn more with me. You're absolutely invited. The event is free and open to the public, but registration is encouraged: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-reading-erin-pringle-tickets-861025780287?aff=oddtdtcreator

Unexpected Weather Events at Indy Reads

Sunday, April 7th, 2024

Noon-2:00 (ET)

1066 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis, IN

Indy Reads website: https://indyreads.org/

Indy Reads on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IndyReads/

 

The Whole World at Once at the Casey Township Library, A Reading

You're invited.

April 7, 2018

1 PM (CST)

Casey Township Library

307 E. Main

Casey, Illinois

Free and open to the public

The Whole World at Once will not be available for purchase at the event, but I will sign your copy if you bring it. You can purchase the book from these online stores (click to be taken to the book's page):

• Amazon
• Barnes and Noble
• Books-A-Million
• Target
• Walmart

WSJ reviews The Whole World at Once: Words with the "strength of tempered steel"

So, here's some good news that all of us missed in May: The Whole World at Once received a write-up in The Wall Street Journal. And a good write-up, to boot:

(excerpt from "Shelf Help" 

by Sam Sacks, 5/19/17)

 Cheers!

Book Your Stocking: The Whole World at Once on Cyber Monday

Celebrate #CyberMonday by purchasing The Whole World at Once for all of your friends. All of them. 

The Whole World at Once is a collection of stories that trace rural landscapes and the journey of mourning and how that affects those who have experienced loss. A soldier returns from multiple tours of war, only to plant landmines in the back yard; a sister searches for her sister among cornfields and fairgrounds; a daughter counts time by her tire swing.

A few reviews: 

"This is an astonishing collection, beautifully written, heartrending, and deeply affecting." Read the full review here.

"People who grew up in rural areas will feel an eerie sense of stories they've grown up hearing or stories they've lived, a sense that this could happen or has happened here, and yet the pervasive thread of grief opens these stories up to anyone." 

Continue reading the review here.

"The characters dream intensely, waking in terror, and the stories themselves have a dreamlike intensity heightened by Pringle’s lyrical voice. [. . .] Readers willing to immerse themselves in sorrow, and sometimes in narratives that twist and shimmer before taking definite shape, will find reflected in these stories the unsteady path of coming back to life—or not—after loss." Continue reading at Kirkus Reviews.  

Pick up your copies of The Whole World at Once at any of these places:

From Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Whole-World-Once-Stories/…/1943665575

From your local bookstore (better): https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781943665570

From the publisher (best): http://wvupressonline.com/node/668

If you'd like a signed copy, message me via Facebook or my website: 

http://www.erinpringle.com/p/contact-her.html