Nick Hornby with Ayelet Waldman: Just Like You
About the Event:
Nick Hornby’s latest novel Just Like You updates the meet-cute genre for a modern love story: Lucy, a 41 year old almost-divorcée, stands in line at a butcher shop watching her neighbor flirt with a much younger man behind the counter. It’s not exactly the stuff of dreams, but Lucy isn’t looking for romance (at least not yet). Join Hornby (High Fidelity) and Ayelet Waldman (The Mommy-Track Mysteries) for a chat about what it means for authors and characters to throw out the old scripts in order to try something new.
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This week’s programs presented with the support of Fifth Third Bank.
About the Book:
- The Chicago Humanities Festival is pleased to partner with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, a not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling.
- When you purchase your copy of Just Like You from Seminary Co-op you are directly supporting independent bookselling in Chicago and a vital space for book browsing, discovery, and community.
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Event Details
This week’s programs presented with the support of Fifth Third Bank:
[Event tile image description: The event image at the top left of the event page shows a close-up image of the book cover Just Like You. The image is of a biracial couple, the book’s two main characters, embracing. The woman (left) wraps her arms around the man’s shoulders. She has long black hair and wears a pink strapless top. The man (right) is wearing a white t-shirt, with his head tilted upwards. The background is yellow and pink.]