Roundabout Books is honored to host Oregon author Lauren Kessler to read from and discuss her new memoir, Everything Changes Everything, a riveting story of walking the Camino de Santiago after the deaths of her husband and daughter, at an in-store event March 31 at 6:30 pm. This is a resonant and timely story about love, loss, and forging a path forward in the aftermath of grief.
After tragedy upended the contours of her life, Lauren Kessler, an unflinching immersion journalist, felt compelled to move—to do something, to be somewhere else. So she set out alone on the famed Camino de Santiago, walking across Spain to create space between the life she’d lived and the life she hadn’t chosen but now inhabited.
Raw and luminous, Everything Changes Everything is a story about facing what we’d rather avoid, about the wounds we carry, hide, and—sometimes—heal. It’s about the privilege of choosing hardship, the grace of temporary friendship, the solace of kindred spirits, and the power of movement to unstick what’s stuck. It’s also about unfounded optimism, unlikely laughter, and the way grief and beauty can coexist in a single step.
Lauren Kessler is a three time winner of the Oregon Book Award for nonfiction and a widely published journalist in national publications such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Baltimore Sun, Seattle Times, O magazine, Harper’s, Psychology Today, and People magazine. She is a (semi) fearless immersion reporter who combines lively narrative with deep research. She is the author of 11 works of narrative nonfiction, 3 biographies, an oral history, and 4 books on writing and reporting. She teaches Storytelling for Social Change at the University of Washington and runs writing workshops for Forum for Journalism and Media in Vienna, and for newbie and veteran writers closer to home. A graduate of Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University, she holds a Ph.D. in Communications from the University of Washington. She lives in Oregon.
A purchase of Everything Changes Everything or a $5 ticket is your entry to the event. Books can be purchased through the Roundabout Books website here, via telephone at 541-306-6564, or in the store. For further information, please contact Roundabout Books’ Event Manager, Julie Swearingen, at julie@roundaboutbookshop.com.
Roundabout Books is a full-service independent bookstore, located in the heart of Bend’s Northwest Crossing Community. The staff takes tremendous pride in their highly curated selection of new adult and children’s books. Local Bend resident, Cassie Clemans, founded Roundabout Books nine years ago with a vision of enhancing the life of our community by providing a warm and comfortable literary space where people of all ages are welcome to read, browse, shop for books, meet a friend, or enjoy an event.
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