Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author Coming to Northeastern

A talk by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Paul Harding and An opening of the Anna & Eugene M. Reppucci Alumni Reading Room On Tuesday, October 12 at noon, Paul Harding will read from his award-winning novel, Tinkers, about a father-son relationship over time. A book signing and reception in the new Alumni Reading Room will immediately follow. This event is free and open to the public. RSVP to Jordan Hellman at j.hellman@neu.edu, 617.373-5452. Co-sponsors for this event are NU Libraries, Office of Alumni Relations, NU Humanities Center, NU Bookstore, and NU Disability Resource Center. About Tinkers An old man lies dying. Propped up on a hospital bed in his living room and surrounded by his children and grandchildren, George Washington Crosby drifts in and out of consciousness, back to the wonder and pain of his impoverished childhood in Maine. As time becomes fluid, his memories intertwine with those of his father, an epileptic, itinerant peddler and his grandfather, a Methodist preacher beset by madness. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, Tinkersis an elegiac meditation on love, loss, illness, faith, and the fierce beauty of nature.  – From Bellevue Literary Press “[A] beautifully written study of father-son relationships and the nature of time.” —Library Journal “Every so often a writer describes something so well … that you can smell it or feel it or sense it in the room. The writing does what all those other art forms do — evoke the essence of the thing.” —Susan Salter Reynold, Los Angeles Times