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Online Author Talk With Liane Moriarty

A Deep Dive Into Character Development

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? Join us as we chat with mega-bestselling author Liane Moriarty about her newest novel "Here One Moment," a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world. Adults. Register to get a link. A recording will be available for later viewing.

If you knew your future, would you try to fight fate? If you were told you only had a certain amount of time left to live, would you do things differently? Join us as we chat with mega-bestselling author Liane Moriarty about her newest novel "Here One Moment," a brilliantly constructed tale that looks at free will and destiny, grief and love, and the endless struggle to maintain certainty and control in an uncertain world.  

The airline flight at the core of this novel will be smooth; it will land safely. Everyone who gets on the plane will get off. But almost all of them will be forever changed. Because on this ordinary, short, domestic flight, something extraordinary happens. People learn how and when they are going to die. For some, their death is far in the future — age 103! — and they laugh. But for six passengers, their predicted deaths are not far away at all.

How do they know this? Not a single passenger or crew member will later recall noticing a certain woman board the plane. Her appearance and demeanor were unremarkable. But what "The Death Lady" did on that flight was truly remarkable. A few months later, one passenger dies exactly as she predicted. Then two more passengers die, again, as she said they would. Soon no one is thinking this is simply an entertaining story at a cocktail party.

A modern-day Jane Austen who humorously skewers social mores while spinning a web of mystery, Moriarty asks profound questions in her newest I-can’t-wait-to-find-out-what-happens novel.

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About the Author: Liane Moriarty is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "Truly Madly Guilty," "Big Little Lies," "The Husband’s Secret," "The Hypnotist’s Love Story," "What Alice Forgot," "Apples Never Fall" and "Here One Moment." She lives in Sydney, Australia with her husband and two children.

This event is part of DBRL's Online Author Series, supported by David Lile honorarium funds. A recording will also be available for later viewing on the author series site.

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