Brenda Miller with Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Live at Tattered Cover

About This Event

Brenda Miller, award-winning author of six essay collections and more, is joining us on Saturday, May 2nd at 6:00 PM at our Colfax location to share about her new book, Love You, Bye: A Daughter's Journey in Essays and Poems. Registration includes the following options: A signed Paperback copy of the book … OR A $5 Gift Card to Tattered Cover Book Store We will have a limited supply of additional books for guests to purchase in store. Only a book ticket guarantees you a copy of the book. This event includes an opportunity to meet the author, participate in an audience Q&A after the book talk, and get your book(s) signed and personalized. Photos with the author are welcome! If you are unable to attend the event after purchasing a ticket, you are required to pick up your copy of the book (with proof of purchase from your event registration) within 7 days after the event date. If the book is not picked up by that date, you relinquish your copy to Tattered Cover Book Store. ABOUT THE BOOK A luminous collection of essays and poems about family, faith, and the art of saying goodbye from award-winning essayist, poet, and teacher Brenda Miller. In Love You, Bye, award-winning author Brenda Miller maps the territory of caregiving, loss, and unexpected grace. The title—drawn from the simple phrase she and her mother said to each other for years—captures the bittersweet essence of a book that finds profound meaning in the most ordinary expressions of love. At the center of this collection lies the story of Miller's journey as the "wayward daughter" who becomes the devoted caregiver to her aging parents, chronicling her father's gradual decline and her mother's final months with remarkable vulnerability. From the rituals of Passover to the silence of hospice rooms, from the mysterious appearances of tree frogs to the sacred work of singing at deathbeds, Miller weaves together the ordinary and the transcendent, often finding that the sacred is embedded in the mundane. Miller's voice moves seamlessly between prose and poetry, between humor and heartbreak, between the personal and the universal. She transforms the simple act of saying goodbye into an art form and the everyday language of love into something approaching prayer. Love You, Bye is essential reading for anyone navigating the complexities of aging parents, the mysteries of faith, or the simple courage required to keep loving in a world that can break our hearts. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Brenda Miller is the author of six essay collections, including A Braided Heart: Essays on Writing and Form, Listening Against the Stone, and An Earlier Life, which received the Washington State Book Award for Memoir. Her work has received seven Pushcart Prizes. She co-authored, with Suzanne Paola, the textbook Tell it Slant: Creating, Refining, and Publishing Creative Nonfiction and co-wrote, with Holly J. Hughes, The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World. She is Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at Western Washington University and lives in Bellingham, Washington. ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNER Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Descanso for My Father, Presentimiento, Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between, and the poetry chapbook Comfort of Stone. His work appears in such venues as New Letters, TriQuarterly, Puerto del Sol, and has been noted in the Pushcart Prize and Best American Essays series. Honors include fellowships from the NEA, MacDowell, and Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, as well as the Colorado Book Award and New Mexico-Arizona Book Award. He teaches at Colorado State University.