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SUMMARY:Eric Puchner with "Dream State" at The Music Hall Lounge
DESCRIPTION:SHOWTIME\nTuesday\, January 20 2026\, 7:00pm \nDoors open at 6pm \nTICKETS\n$35* \n**Ticket Package includes a signed book (Dream State\, $19\, paperback). \nhttps://www.themusichall.org/events/ericpuchner/ \nCece is in love. She has arrived early at her future in-laws’ lake house in Salish\, Montana\, to finish planning her wedding to Charlie\, a young doctor with a brilliant life ahead of him. Charlie has asked Garrett\, his best friend from college\, to officiate the ceremony\, though Cece can’t imagine anyone more ill-suited for the task—an airport baggage handler haunted by a tragedy from his and Charlie’s shared past. But as Cece spends time with Garrett\, his gruff mask slips\, and she grows increasingly uncertain about her future. And why does Garrett\, after meeting Cece\, begin to feel\, well\, human again? As a contagious stomach flu threatens to scuttle the wedding\, and Charlie and Garrett’s friendship is put to the ultimate test\, Cece must decide between the life she’s dreamed of and a life she’s never imagined. \nThe events of that summer have long-lasting repercussions\, not only on the three friends caught in its shadow but also on their children\, who struggle to escape their parents’ story. Spanning fifty years and set against the backdrop of a rapidly warming Montana\, Dream State explores what it means to live with the mistakes of the past—both our own and the ones we’ve inherited. \nWritten with humor\, precision\, and enormous heart\, both a love letter and an elegy to the American West\, Dream State is a thrillingly ambitious ode to the power of friendship\, the weird weather of marriage\, and the beauty of impermanence. \nEric Puchner is the author of the story collection Music Through the Floor\, a finalist for the New York Public Library’s Young Lions Fiction Award; the novel Model Home\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in Fiction; and a second short story collection\, Last Day on Earth. His short stories and personal essays have appeared in GQ\, Granta\, Tin House\, Best American Short Stories\, and more. He has received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is an associate professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore with his wife\, the novelist Katharine Noel\, and their two children.
URL:https://www.portsmouthnh.com/event/eric-puchner-with-dream-state-at-the-music-hall-lounge/
LOCATION:The Music Hall Lounge\, 131 Congress St.\, Portsmouth\, NH\, 03801
CATEGORIES:Lecture/Discussion,Books & Poetry
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