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Please note this event will be held at Bascom Music Hall. It's free and open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Seating is by general admission and limited to theater capacity. Doors open at 6 p.m. 

From award-winning, bestselling author David Levithan and beloved, acclaimed singer-songwriter Jens Lekman comes a charming, tender novel about an unlucky-in-love wedding singer trying to find the right words to save his relationship.

Songs for Other People's Weddings follows J, a heartbroken musician who writes custom love songs for couples on their wedding day. He’s great at capturing other people’s stories—but can’t seem to fix his own failing relationship. As love gets messy, J wonders if there’s any way to sing through the noise. Bittersweet, funny, and deeply romantic, this is a novel about connection, heartbreak, and the music that gets us through it.

In conversation with Steven Spoerl.

Striker isn’t entirely sure she should be on this luxury Antarctic cruise. A Black film scout, her mission is to photograph potential locations for a big-budget movie about Ernest Shackleton’s doomed expedition. Along the way, she finds private if cautious amusement in the behavior of both the native wildlife and the group of wealthy, mostly white tourists who have chosen to spend Christmas on the Weddell Sea.

But when a kayaking excursion goes horribly wrong, Striker and a group of survivors become stranded on a remote island along the Antarctic Peninsula, a desolate setting complete with boiling geothermal vents and vicious birds. Soon the hostile environment will show each survivor their true face, and as the polar ice thaws in the unseasonable warmth, the group’s secrets, prejudices, and inner demons will also emerge, including revelations from Striker’s past that could irrevocably shatter her world.

With her signature lyricism and humor, Quan Barry offers neither comfort nor closure as she questions the limits of the human bonds that connect us to one another, affirming there are no such things as haunted places, only haunted people. Gripping, lucid, and imaginative, The Unveiling is an astonishing ghost story about the masks we wear and the truths we hide even from ourselves.