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An Evening With Sebastian Junger

Thursday, May 30 @ 7:00 pm

Books & Books – Coral Gables

265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables , United States

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Books & Books is proud to present bestselling author and award-winning reporter Sebastian Junger presenting his new book, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife** (Simon & Schuster, $27.99)**

****Please note:* This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. **Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event. Can’t make the event? **Order your copy online.


About the Book:

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.

For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. “It’s okay,” his father said. “There’s nothing to be scared of. I’ll take care of you.” That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived.

This experience spurred Junger—a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical—to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions?

In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.

About the Author:

Sebastian Junger is the New York Times bestselling author of Tribe, War, Freedom, A Death in Belmont, Fire, and The Perfect Storm, and codirector of the documentary film Restrepo, which was nominated for an Academy Award. He is also the winner of a Peabody Award and the National Magazine Award for Reporting.

Details

Date:
Thursday, May 30
Time:
7:00 pm

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Language
English
Occurrence
Annual

Venue

Books & Books – Coral Gables
265 Aragon Ave., Coral Gables , United States
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