Set Your Life on Fire: Author Event with Maddie Dawson & Kristan Higgins (in-person)

About this event

Join us for a moderated conversation with Maddie Dawson to celebrate the release of her newest novel, Set Your Life on Fire . Maddie will be interviewed by Kristan Higgins.

About Set Your Life on Fire

Two strangers facing heartbreak discover that an extremely ill-advised road trip can put the past in the rearview mirror in a funny and uplifting novel about second chances by the bestselling author of Matchmaking for Beginners .

After ditching her cheating husband, Tasha Jensen packs her bags, cleans out their joint account, and heads for Chicago’s O’Hare Airport to catch the next flight to LA. There, falling apart and with the airport grounded by an ice storm, Tasha meets the annoyingly optimistic Carter McGee, who’s traveling to stop his ex-wife’s wedding. With time running out, they hit the road in a sketchy rental van for a chaotic seventeen-hundred-mile road trip.

Two heartbroken strangers rushing together toward the unknown—what could go wrong? Maybe everything. Between breakdowns, both automotive and emotional, arguments, and sleeplessness, they find an unlikely connection—as well as the floofiest Pomeranian puppy. Cheering them on is Carter’s matchmaking grandmother Bootsie, whose California beachfront motel is a nurturing haven for feisty, colorful, and opinionated women of a certain age.

It’s the perfect place for Tasha and Carter to take a breather and perhaps let go of the past—but can they learn to trust themselves again?

Maddie Dawson , a transplanted Southerner living in the Northeast, is the Washington Post bestselling author of eleven novels. She specializes in humorous literary fiction, about people stumbling toward love, family, connection, and hope—and usually finding it in the most unlikely circumstances. Her books have been translated into fifteen languages. Learn more here .

Kristan Higgins is the author of more than two dozen bestselling novels, which have been translated into 27 languages and sold millions of copies worldwide. Her books have received dozens of awards and accolades, including starred reviews from Entertainment Weekly, People, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal and Booklist. ​ Kristan is the mother of two exceedingly charming adult children and the smitten grandmother of two little ones. She enjoys mixology, the National Parks and being overly helpful to strangers. Kristan lives in Connecticut and is often at the family home on Cape Cod with her heroic firefighter husband, a rambunctious dog and their indifferent cat. Learn more here.

Books by both authors will be for sale at this event.

Please register, so we can set the community room up with appropriate seating.