Join Watchung Booksellers for an Evening with the Author featuring Michael Laser presenting his new work, “Eulogy.”
You think you know your father — but what if he kept secrets until the day he died? Just hours after delivering his father’s eulogy, Ken Weintraub learns that this hard-working, unassuming man spent three years in prison. Consumed by the astonishing news, Ken sets out to unravel the mystery. As he pries information from old friends, relatives, and others, he pieces together a portrait that’s full of contradictions. Was his father an assassin’s accomplice? A gullible victim? Or a heroic, loyal friend? Everywhere he turns, he hears stories that surprise him. Even when he thinks he knows the whole truth, there’s still more to learn.
Michael Laser is the author of My Impending Death, 6-321, and other novels. He lives with his wife in Montclair.
Author Christina Baker Kline calls Eulogy “a heartfelt novel about a son’s search for the truth about his seemingly ordinary father’s hidden life, Eulogy is achingly bittersweet. As he begins asking questions he isn’t sure he wants to know the answers to, the son is forced to reassess everything he believes about the people he loves—and ultimately examine his own life choices and decisions. Quietly observed and richly absorbing.”
Laser will be in conversation with author Robert Edelstein.
When: Thursday, September 8 at 7 p.m.
Where: Watchung Booksellers, 54 Fairfield St, Montclair