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Author Event with J. Ryan Stradal/Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club in conversation with Carson Vaughan

Anderson's Bookshop Downers Grove

location_on 5112 Main Street, Downers Grove, IL, USA
schedule 4/24/2023 7:00 PM
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Author Event with J. Ryan Stradal/Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club in conversation with Carson Vaughan

Join Anderson’s Bookshop for an in-person event and signing line with author J. Ryan Stradal, to celebrate the release of Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, on Monday, April 24th at 7pm CT in our Downers Grove store. He will be in conversation with author Carson Vaughan. After their talk, J. Ryan will answer audience questions, have a signing line and take photos with attendees if they wish!


This event will be held in our Downers Grove store location, and pre-registration is required as space is limited. 

 

More about Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club:

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them

Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel’s grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurant, skipping Florence, it created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed.

Ned is also an heir—to a chain of home-style diners—and while he doesn't have a head for business, he knows his family's chain could provide a better future than his wife's fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear, and the hard-won victories of each family hang in the balance. With their dreams dashed, can one fractured family find a way to rebuild despite their losses, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation?

In this colorful, vanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds, J. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his signature honest, lovable yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with love, loss, and marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone.

About the Author: 

J. Ryan Stradal is the author of New York Times bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest and national bestseller The Lager Queen of Minnesota. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Granta, The Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His debut, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, won the American Booksellers Association Indie's Choice Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year. Born and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in California with his family.

Carson Vaughan (conversation partner) is a freelance journalist and the author of Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Outside and more. He's currently working on his second book, a travelogue through the Nebraska Sandhills, for W.W. Norton & Company.


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