Richard Powers Signed Book & Speaking Event

This package has 1 signed copy of the book AND 1 ticket to see Richard Powers speak (in person or live-stream) on Sept 29 as part of the CCPL Foundation's Writers Center Stage series.

Richard Powers, the prolific writer and award-winning author of 12 novels, is known for his exploration of modern science and technology. Powers' most recent novel, The Overstory (2019), is the passionate work of activism, resistance, and astonishing evocation about the natural world. The Overstory won the 2019 Pulitzer award for Fiction, named Amazon's Best Book of the Year, listed as a New York Times best-seller and was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Powers also won the MacArthur Fellowship, the National Book Award and is a four-time National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Powers' latest book, Bewilderment, will be released in September 2021.

Bewilderment:  A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain…

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