The author discusses The Secret Chord this Thursday, Oct. 15, at 7PM, at Sidwell Friends.
From the boy with the slingshot to the legendary king and the man willing to do anything to have Bathsheba — ultimately, what kind of person was David? In her fifth novel, The Secret Chord, Brooks — who won the Pulitzer Prize for March, the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Christianity Today Book Award for Caleb’s Crossing — tells a story of one of history’s truly towering figures. To capture the many facets of this complex individual, Brooks reimagines his life from the perspectives of those who knew him, making rich characters of David’s wives, youngest son, and Natan, shepherd boy and prophet.
Brooks will be in conversation with Joel Achenbach, National Enterprise Reporter at the Washington Post.
1 Ticket: $10
1 Book and 1 Ticket: $30; $28 for members
1 Book and 2 Tickets: $35; $33 for members
All books and tickets will be available at will call at 6 p.m. the evening of the event. Politics and Prose will not have books or tickets available for pick up prior to the evening of the event.
This event takes place at Sidwell Friends School, 3825 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC. Click here for more info. And click here to read the Independent's recent interview with Brooks.
