Book Reading – New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal

Join Thumbprint Cellars in Healdsburg on Thursday, April 20th at 7:00 pm for an evening with the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal (@jryanstradal). The event will

celebrate Stradal’s new book, Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club, featuring his signature Midwestern characters as they navigate love, loss, marriage, and the comfort of home-style diners.

The evening will include a discussion led by Stradal, followed by a Q&A and book signing. Due to limited seating, registration is required at http://bit.ly/3K6EXcj.

Don’t miss this opportunity to meet the acclaimed author and delve into the world of his latest literary masterpiece. Join Thumbprint Cellars for an unforgettable night of storytelling, community, and wine.

Get a free pour from one of Thumbprint’s delicious wines with the purchase of the book.

Additional glasses of wine will be for sale all evening.

This event will include a QA session and signing.  Seating is limited, so registration is required.

From the New York Times bestselling author J. Ryan Stradal, a story of a couple from two very different restaurant families in rustic Minnesota, and the legacy of love and tragedy, of hardship and hope, that unites and divides them

    Mariel Prager needs a break. Her husband Ned is having an identity crisis, her spunky, beloved restaurant is bleeding money by the day, and her mother Florence is stubbornly refusing to leave the church where she’s been holed up for more than a week. The Lakeside Supper Club has been in her family for decades, and while Mariel’s grandmother embraced the business, seeing it as a saving grace, Florence never took to it. When Mariel inherited the restaurant, skipping Florence, it created a rift between mother and daughter that never quite healed.

    Ned is also an heir—to a chain of home-style diners—and while he doesn’t have a head for business, he knows his family’s chain could provide a better future than his wife’s fading restaurant. In the aftermath of a devastating tragedy, Ned and Mariel lose almost everything they hold dear, and the hard-won victories of each family hang in the balance. With their dreams dashed, can one fractured family find a way to rebuild despite their losses, and will the Lakeside Supper Club be their salvation?

    In this colorful, vanishing world of relish trays and brandy Old Fashioneds, J. Ryan Stradal has once again given us a story full of his signature honest, lovable yet fallible Midwestern characters as they grapple with love, loss, and marriage; what we hold onto and what we leave behind; and what our legacy will be when we are gone.

Author: J. Ryan Stradal is the author of the New York Times bestseller Kitchens of the Great Midwest and the national bestseller The Lager Queen of Minnesota. His writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, Granta, The Rumpus, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. His debut, Kitchens of the Great Midwest, won the American Booksellers Association Indie Choice Book Award for Adult Debut Book of the Year. Born and raised in Minnesota, he now lives in California with his family.