This is a ticketed event if you’re an adult. Children accompanied by adults will not need their own tickets. The event is for all-ages!
Join us for an evening to read and celebrate a stunning all-ages novel The Eyes and the Impossible with author Dave Eggers.
Eggers will be in conversation with Joel Garza.
The purchase of a ticket includes both admission to the event and a copy of The Eyes and the Impossible.
DAVE EGGERS is the author of many books. He is the cofounder of 826 National, a network of youth writing centers, and Voice of Witness, an oral history book series that illuminates the stories of those impacted by human rights crises. He has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and is the recipient of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the American Book Award. He has attended the JetPack Aviation academy in Moorpark, California, but is not yet certified to fly off-tether. Born in Boston and raised in Illinois, he has now lived in the San Francisco Bay Area for three decades. He and his family often consider leaving, but they do not leave.
JOEL GARZA called roll for the first time in the fall of 1993 at El Centro Community College. He's a former board member of Deep Vellum, and he currently teaches English at Greenhill School. Outside of school, Joel co-founded & co-hosts #THEBOOKCHAT, a Twitter chat devoted to reading bravely & deliberately.
The Eyes and the Impossible is the story of a dog named Johannes. Johannes is a free dog, a fast dog—such a fast dog! He lives in an urban park by the sea, and every day, he runs through the park, seeing all, missing nothing, and reporting what he sees to the park’s three ancient Bison, the Keepers of the Equilibrium. But the Equilibrium has been disrupted.
Mysterious rectangles are hypnotizing Johannes, humans are erecting a strange new building, and an entirely new kind of animal has arrived in the park—and there are hundreds of them. Johannes must run faster, see better, and ultimately do more than run and see—he must liberate those he loves.
Gorgeously illustrated throughout by Shawn Harris (author of Have You Ever Seen a Flower? and illustrator of Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers, among many others), Dave Eggers’s The Eyes and the Impossible is a lyrical, soulful book full of wit and passion—a timeless story for readers of all ages.