A Community Speaker Series event, in partnership with the Sun Valley Writers Conference. Registration required.

Ruth Reichl, one of our best-known and most well-loved food writers, is the author of five memoirs, including Tender at the Bone and Save Me the Plums. She is also a captivating novelist, and, as you might imagine, her fiction is full of many sensory pleasures.

In her delightful new book, The Paris Novel, the protagonist Stella is left with an unusual inheritance: a one-way plane ticket and a note reading “Go to Paris.” But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic childhood has confined her to the strict routines of her comfort zone.

Reichl will talk to The Community Library’s executive director, Jenny Emery Davidson, about this novel that celebrates the city she adores and the many reasons for living deliciously, taking chances, and finding your true home.

Photo credit: Shannon Greer.