Author Talk: Simon Van Booy, The Presence of Absence

When:
Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 4:00p -
5:00p

Where:
Porter Square Books
25 White St
Cambridge, MA 02140

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Admission:
FREE

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Categories:
Art

Event website:
https://www.portersquarebooks.com/event/simon-van-booy-presence-absence

Porter Square Books is thrilled to welcome Simon Van Booy, author of The Presence of Absence, for an author talk and signing at the store.


As a writer lies dying, he has one last story to tell: a tale of faith and devotion, a meditation on what lies beyond this life, and a prayer of gratitude that may lead to rebirth. This is Simon Van Booy at his visionary best.


"Language is a map leading to a place not on the map," announces a young writer lying in a hospital bed at the beginning of The Presence of Absence. As he contemplates his impending physical disappearance and the impact on his beloved wife, he realizes, "Life doesn't start when you're born . . . it begins when you commit yourself to the eventual devastating loss that results from connecting to another person."


Infused with poetic clarity and graced with humor, Simon Van Booy's innovative novella asks the reader to find beauty--even gratitude--in the cycle of birth and death. Stripped of artifice, The Presence of Absence is a meditation between the writer and the reader, an imaginative work that challenges the deceit of written words and explores our strongest emotions.

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