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Author Talk: Here One Moment with Liane Moriarty

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2024-09-21 16:00:00 2024-09-21 17:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Author Talk: Here One Moment with Liane Moriarty Join author Liane Moriarty as she chats about her newest novel, Here One Moment, a tale that explores free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. For adults. Virtual Program -

Saturday, September 21
4:00pm - 5:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-09-21 16:00:00 2024-09-21 17:00:00 America/Los_Angeles Author Talk: Here One Moment with Liane Moriarty Join author Liane Moriarty as she chats about her newest novel, Here One Moment, a tale that explores free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. For adults. Virtual Program -

Join author Liane Moriarty as she chats about her newest novel, Here One Moment, a tale that explores free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. For adults.

In Here One Moment, aside from a flight delay, there will be no problems. The flight will be smooth, it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future—age 103!—and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.

How do they know this? There were ostensibly more interesting people on the flight but none would become as famous as “The Death Lady.” Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing her board the plane. She wasn’t exceptionally old or young, rude or polite. She wasn’t drunk or nervous or pregnant. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what she did on that flight was truly remarkable. 

A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.

A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel. Be sure to register now!


About the Author: Liane Moriarty is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Truly Madly Guilty, Big Little Lies, The Husband’s Secret, The Hypnotist’s Love Story, What Alice Forgot, Apples Never Fall, and Here One Moment. She lives in Sydney, Australia, with her husband and two children.

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Mon, Sep 15 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Tue, Sep 16 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Wed, Sep 17 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Thu, Sep 18 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Fri, Sep 19 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Sep 20 7:00AM to 6:00PM
Sun, Sep 21 7:00AM to 6:00PM

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