{"product_id":"irl-author-talk-good-morning-means-i-love-you-with-kendra-allen-july-7-7pm-cst","title":"IRL AUTHOR TALK: Good Morning Means I Love You with Kendra Allen - July 7 @ 7PM CST","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCelebrate the release of \u003cem\u003eGood Morning Means I Love You\u003c\/em\u003e with Kendra Allen!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEVENT DEETS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen: Tuesday, July 7 @ 7PM CST\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhere: Kindred Stories (2310 Elgin St, Houston, TX 77004)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRSVP ONLY to reserve your seat or RSVP WITH BOOK to support the author and our store programming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease note outside copies of the book will not be allowed in the bookstore and you will not be eligible for the signing\/photo line. You must buy a book from Kindred Stories.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE BOOK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA couple years after Noon and I fall in love, we fall in love with Micah—and a couple years after that, I have both of their babies. We choose, this land and this life. We share, ourselves and our sons. We name them, Morning and Night.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her arresting first novel, Kendra Allen investigates love, partnership, motherhood, pleasure and the pursuit of freedom in one young woman’s defiantly unconventional terms. Rae has just returned to her family after leaving for a stretch and suddenly – that family being her two male partners and the sons, named Morning and Night, that she has mothered with each of them. In the span of one year, they will experience unfathomable depths of devastation—and joys they could never predict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Morning Means I Love You\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efollows Rae as she makes choices around sex, mothering, and partnership that are as stunning to everyone else as they are natural to herself. With pain and pleasure, she watches as her children learn to walk and give language to the world as her lovers contend with their own ideas of masculinity, personhood, and fatherhood. Along the way, Rae begins to understand the hardest and most beautiful truth: that we have only so much time on earth to make love, to make family, and to make good on the promise of this one, short life.\u003cbr\u003eThis is a novel of the self in all its simultaneities and a living portrait of intimacy written in poetic, bold, and sensual prose that shines a light on what it means to redefine expectation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eKendra Allen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the author of the memoir \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eFruit Punch,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e the poetry collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Collection Plate,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the essay collection \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen You Learn the Alphabet,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which won the 2018 Iowa Prize for Literary Nonfiction, awarded by Kiese Laymon. She writes to music column “Make Love in My Car” for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthwest Review. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe was born and raised in Dallas. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eABOUT THE MODERATOR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eKamisha Escoto, PhD, is a Lecturer at Rice University who teaches graduate students how to communicate complex ideas clearly through writing. By day, she works in engineering communication; outside the classroom, she's an avid reader who views fiction as a way to explore the human side of how we think and relate to one another. She enjoys literary fiction and is especially drawn to stories about friendship, identity, and emotional ambiguity. A native Houstonian, she reads widely across genres with her son (and often aloud to her dog). \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kindred Stories","offers":[{"title":"RSVP ONLY","offer_id":48252822388991,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"RSVP WITH BOOK","offer_id":48252822421759,"sku":"9780063388413-EVENT","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0527\/3577\/0820\/files\/Kendra_Allen_1.png?v=1774985964","url":"https:\/\/kindredstorieshtx.com\/products\/irl-author-talk-good-morning-means-i-love-you-with-kendra-allen-july-7-7pm-cst","provider":"Kindred Stories","version":"1.0","type":"link"}