{"product_id":"free-author-event-dawn-tripp-in-conversation-with-barbara-demarco-barrett","title":"FREE AUTHOR EVENT: Dawn Tripp in conversation with Barbara DeMarco Barrett","description":"\u003cp\u003eTickets do not include reserved seating and are first come first serve. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvent Details: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDoors will open at 5.30pm and event will start promptly at 6pm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT JACKIE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"mobile-about-the-book\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"slot product-about 9780812997217 isbn-related seemoreenable show opened\" target-height=\"904.25\" height-fold=\"377\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A brilliant, beautiful book [that] touches the soul.”—Chris Bohjalian,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Princess of Las Vegas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe world has divided my life into three:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife with Jack\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife with Onassis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy life is all of these things, and it is none of these things. They continue to miss what’s right in front of them. I love books. I love the sea. I love horses. Children. Art. Ideas. History. Beauty. Because beauty blows us open to wonder.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eEven the beauty that breaks your heart\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eJackie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis the story of a woman—deeply private with a nuanced, formidable intellect—who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of unthinkable violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Jackie meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy in Georgetown, she is twenty-one and dreaming of France. She has won an internship at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e. Kennedy, she thinks, is not her kind of adventure: “Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.” Yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor, his drive. The chemistry between them ignites. During the White House years, the love between two independent people deepens. Then, a motorcade in Dallas: “Three and a half seconds—that’s all it was—a slivered instant between the first shot, which missed the car, and the second, which did not. . . . A hypnotic burst of sunlight off her bracelet as she waved.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis vivid, exquisitely written novel is at once a captivating work of the imagination and a window into the world of a woman who led many lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, Jackie O.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more-link-wrap opened\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"slot-header subtitle\"\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"seemore-0\" class=\"seemoreenable\" height-fold=\"280\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDawn Tripp\u003c\/b\u003e’s fourth novel\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorgia\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ewas a national bestseller, finalist for the New England Book Award, and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature. She is the author of three previous novels:\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGame of Secrets, Moon Tide,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Season of Open Water\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her short story\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMojave\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ewas published in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGay Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Her poetry and essays have appeared in the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review, AGNI, Conjunctions,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand NPR, among others. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and lives in Massachusetts with her family. 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