Franklin Avenue Library
5000 Franklin Avenue
Des Moines, IA 50310
United States
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. EVENT BEGINS AT 6:30 PM CT.
Join the Des Moines Public Library and Beaverdale Books for an evening with Margaret Renkl at the Franklin Avenue Library.
Margaret Renkl is the author of The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, which will be published on October 24, 2023. Her earlier books are Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss and Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South.
Beaverdale Books will have copies available for sale and signing. Margaret will also sign copies of Late Migrations and Graceland, At Last (now out in paperback!).
Margaret Renkl
Margaret Renkl is the author of Graceland, At Last: Notes on Hope and Heartache From the American South and Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss. She is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Proximity, and River Teeth, among others. The founding editor of Chapter 16, a daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina, she lives in Nashville.
In a patchwork quilt of personal and reported essays, Margaret Renkl’s columns offer a dose of natural beauty, human decency, and persistent hope from her home in Nashville.
From Margaret Renkl comes an unusual, captivating portrait of a family—and of the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world.