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Still life of two books "Second Nature" by Jacquelyn Mitchard and "Once Upon a Time, There Was You" by Elizabeth Berg (Bill Hogan, Chicago Tribune / September 1, 2011) |
My father in the center aisle of the Lady Chapel — that hunched, hexed little building he hated as a father and as a firefighter — under the lowering band of sooty, mean-colored smoke, and he looked right at me. He understood what had happened to me, and although he couldn't tell me then, he was still happy. He thought I was one of the lucky ones.
I was.
From "Once Upon a Time, There Was You"
By Elizabeth Berg
Random House, 304 pages, $26
When eighteen-year-old Sadie Marsh comes from California to visit her father in Minnesota, she sleeps in a bedroom decorated for her much younger self: a ruffled canopy bed, a white dresser with fairies painted on it, wallpaper with pink and white stripes, a bedside lamp with a wishing well base. Neither John nor his daughter has ever made a move to change one thing about that room; Sadie still sleeps under a pile of stuffed animals, the ones she left behind.
Author Talk details
Meet best-selling authors Elizabeth Berg and Jacquelyn Mitchard at Author Talks, hosted by Literary Editor Elizabeth Taylor. A book signing and meet-and-mingle reception will follow the conversation.
When: 6:30 p.m. Sept. 15
Where: Murphy Auditorium, 50 E. Erie St.
Tickets: $20, at TribNation.com/events
I was.
From "Once Upon a Time, There Was You"
By Elizabeth Berg
Random House, 304 pages, $26
When eighteen-year-old Sadie Marsh comes from California to visit her father in Minnesota, she sleeps in a bedroom decorated for her much younger self: a ruffled canopy bed, a white dresser with fairies painted on it, wallpaper with pink and white stripes, a bedside lamp with a wishing well base. Neither John nor his daughter has ever made a move to change one thing about that room; Sadie still sleeps under a pile of stuffed animals, the ones she left behind.
Author Talk details
Meet best-selling authors Elizabeth Berg and Jacquelyn Mitchard at Author Talks, hosted by Literary Editor Elizabeth Taylor. A book signing and meet-and-mingle reception will follow the conversation.
When: 6:30 p.m. Sept. 15
Where: Murphy Auditorium, 50 E. Erie St.
Tickets: $20, at TribNation.com/events