Join us in a conversation with
Mitch Albom, a #1 New York Times bestselling author and Traverse City’s
favorite storyteller, who spins universal tales of our eternal search for
meaning. He has sold more than 40
million copies worldwide, in forty-eight languages, including Tuesdays with
Morrie, the bestselling memoir of all time.
His powerful new novel, THE LITTLE LIAR, is as stunning and thought-provoking as anything
Albom has ever written. It tells the story of how young Nico Krispis, who has
never told a lie, is tricked by a German officer who promises him that Nico’s
family will be saved if he can do one small task: convince the Jewish residents
of his town to board the trains that will transport them to “safety.” Day after
day, the eleven-year-old unknowingly plays his part in the evacuation —until
the final day when he is betrayed, and his own family is loaded into the boxcar
headed to Auschwitz.
Nico, forced to stay behind, loses the ability to
speak the truth ever again. After the war, his brother Sebastian and their
schoolmate Fannie, who have miraculously survived the concentration camps and
death marches, begin their search for Nico, who has become a pathological liar.
All three continue to be shadowed by the Nazi officer who forever altered their
lives. As the decades pass, the consequences of what each of them said and did
unfold, and we learn the price we pay for the lies we tell and the secrets we
hide.
Doors open for the event at 6 pm with live music
and a cash bar. A book with a signed bookplate comes with every ticket!