Irvington Book Club: An Expected End
March 14 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
TBD
Richmond-based author Amanda Creasey will join us in-person for our March 2024 book club. This will be a book club-style event where we bring food and drinks to share and discuss the book, but with the added benefit of the mind behind the story!
Get the Book:
They are in stock at The Local, Irvington or can be purchased through The Bookshelf here:
Bookshop.org: https://bookshop.org/a/87438/9781953278463
About the Book:
The year is 2045, and thanks to an inscrutable form of artificial intelligence, people can enroll in a program that accurately predicts their death days. And almost everyone does.
Marshall Milton moves through this risk-adverse, death-obsessed society alone, his only companion his dog Toby. Penelope Hope’s too busy planning her dream wedding and running her bakery to worry about when she’s going to die.
When Marshall and Penelope’s lives collide, the two find themselves in an inimitable romance. But Penelope’s keeping secrets, secrets that could destroy the love she’s finally found. Secrets that could destroy Marshall. Secrets that, if revealed, could ruin the little life she has left.
“An Expected End asks and answers some of the most important questions of contemporary life and introduces emotional and unforgettable characters. Amanda has crafted a timely, thought-provoking, and touching debut novel.”
–Lesley St. James, Author of The Sweet Scent of Death
“Amanda has conjured an all-too-believable world where death is no longer a surprise, yet few have the courage to reckon with their fate. An Expected End is a heart-piercing meditation on what it means to be mortal, threaded with
literary allusion and tender melancholy.”
–Melissa Scott Sinclair, Author of It Is Not Night
