Thursday, August 24th at 6:30
Join us for an author talk with author Rea Bochner about her new memoir, The Cape House.
This unforgettable memoir is a deeply touching story of
mothers and daughters, love and loss, the power of holding on to each other and
the strength it takes to let go. The Cape House is a story both
personal and universal, told with fearless honesty and laugh-out-loud humor. It
begins on the day that Bochner’s mother, Debbi, tells her that she’s received a
prognosis of terminal cancer, and has decided to move to the family’s beloved
summer home on Cape Cod to die. Over the next six weeks, as Debbi deteriorates,
Bochner writes the story of her family, and looks back on the winding road she
trudged with her mother through addiction, recovery, and redemption.
As
both a eulogy for and a celebration of an exceptional woman, Rea Bochner writes
unflinchingly of the powerful bond between a mother and her daughter. The
result is a moving book that carries the readers from tears to laughter, from mourning
to triumph. The Cape House is a testament to love as a force
of nature, and the journey of one woman to discover herself.