Author Event: Kimberly McCreight in discussion with John B. Valeri
Re-Opening Open House
1-2 pm Free author event featuring New York Times Bestselling author Kimberly McCreight to discuss her upcoming release, Friends Like These.
The free event highlighting Kimberly McCreight is being co-hosted by The Friends and Book Club On the Go. The event will be in discussion with author, reviewer, and interviewer John Valeri and will take place in the Wood Memorial Library’s upstairs gallery.
Kimberly McCreight (Promotional image by Beowulf Sheehan) is well known for her New York Times Bestselling novel, Reconstructing Amelia, in addition to her Times Young Adult Trilogy, The Outliers which has been optioned as a film by Lionsgate and Reese Witherspoon Pacific Standard. McCreight’s New York Times Best Book of the Summer, A Good Marriage is also being adapted into a television show by Amazon and Nicole Kidman Blossom Films.
Her newest book Friends Like These is being released on September 7, 2021 and is available for pre-order on the Book Club On the Go site. If the title is purchased on their website, it will be eligible for signing by the author during the time of the event.
Preorder Kimberly McCreight’s upcoming release is available on https://www.bookclubct.com/online-store/Friends-Like-These-A-Novel-NEW-Pre-order-p260846157
ABOUT FRIENDS LIKE THESE
In this relentlessly twisty literary thriller from New York Times bestselling author Kimberly McCreight, a desperate intervention brings together a group of college friends 10 years after graduation—a reunion marked by lies, betrayal, and murder.
Everyone has those friends. Doesn’t matter how long it’s been, or how badly they’ve occasionally behaved, or how late it is when that call finally comes—you show up. No questions asked.
Honestly, that’s how the five of us ended up here in the Catskills. We did have the best of intentions. Especially after what happened to Alice all those years ago, we can’t bear to think of losing anyone else. In fact, we’ll do anything to make sure that doesn’t happen. We’ll go so much farther than we ever thought we would.
In the end, maybe that’s what caught up with us. That, and the fact that we’re such a complicated group—so much history and so many big personalities. Secrets, too, that can slip out at the most inopportune moments. Of course, we love each other despite all of those things. We love each other no matter what.
There’s something so beautiful about that kind of unconditional love. It can turn ugly, though. Or maybe that’s just us. After all, we’ve already been through so much together. And we have so very much to hide.