We encourage all attendees to purchase their copies of the book through our local partner, Inkwood Books in Haddonfield. Inkwood is providing online ordering, home delivery, and curbside pick-up during the COVID-19 quarantine, and will have signed copies available.

Ann Napolitano is the author of the New York Times bestseller Dear Edward, a TODAY Show Read with Jenna Book Club pick, as well as the acclaimed novels A Good Hard Look and Within Arm's Reach. She is also Associate Editor of One Story literary magazine. She has an MFA from New York University, and has taught fiction writing for Brooklyn College, NYU, and Gotham Writers' Workshop. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two children.

About Dear Edward: Twelve-year-old Edward Adler is the sole survivor in a plane crash that kills over 180 people, including his older brother and his parents. Edward’s story captures the attention of the nation, but he struggles to find a place in a world without his family. He continues to feel that a part of himself has been left in the sky, forever tied to the plane and all of his fellow passengers. But then he makes an unexpected discovery—one that will lead him to the answers of some of life’s most profound questions: When you’ve lost everything, how do you find the strength to put one foot in front of the other? How do you learn to feel safe again? How do you find meaning in your life?

Dear Edward is at once a transcendent coming-of-age story, a multidimensional portrait of an unforgettable cast of characters, and a breathtaking illustration of all the ways a broken heart learns to love again.