Celebrate the 30th anniversary of Winik’s First Comes Love in Baltimore on Thurs., Jan. 8th, at 6 p.m.!
When Marion Winik’s First Comes Love came out in 1997, it reshaped the landscape of memoir with its bold, heartbreaking and hilarious telling of the trajectory of a marriage. Now, 30 years later, it’s being reissued in a special anniversary edition — with an audiobook! — and we are throwing it a birthday party.
Joined by Laura Lippman, Winik will speak about the book and reflect on its 30 years in the world. We’ll have the new edition on hand (complete with a new introduction), as well as the new audiobook available for purchase from Libro.fm, and a pop-up bar from Bird in Hand to make it extra festive. Join us!
More about the book: When Marion Winik fell in love with Tony Heubach during a wild Mardi Gras in New Orleans in 1983, her friends shook their heads. For starters, she was straight and he was gay. But Marion and Tony’s impossible love turned out to be true enough to produce a marriage and two beautiful sons, strong enough to weather drug addiction, sexual betrayal, and only ended because of the death of Tony from AIDS, at the age of 37.
In a memoir by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, Winik tells a story that is all more powerful for the way in which it defies easy judgments. As it charts the trajectory of a marriage so impossible that it became inevitable, First Comes Love reminds us — poignantly, indelibly — that every love story is a special case.
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