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The Quiet Boy: An Interview with Ben Winters

Wed, Jun 02

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Online via Zoom

Folio librarian Lillian Dabney sits down with New York Times bestselling Ben Winters to discuss his new book The Quiet Boy.

The Quiet Boy: An Interview with Ben Winters
The Quiet Boy: An Interview with Ben Winters

Time & Location

Jun 02, 2021, 6:00 PM PDT

Online via Zoom

About the Event

 Folio librarian Lillian Dabney sits down with New York Times bestselling Ben Winters to discuss his new book The Quiet Boy.

In 2008, a cheerful ambulance-chasing lawyer named Jay Shenk persuades the grieving Keener family to sue a private LA hospital. Their son Wesley has been transformed by a routine surgery into a kind of golem, absent all normal functioning or personality, walking in endless empty circles around his hospital room.  In 2019, Shenk—still in practice but a shell of his former self—is hired to defend Wesley Keener’s father when he is charged with murder…the murder, as it turns out, of the expert witness from the 2008 hospital case. Shenk’s adopted son, a fragile teenager in 2008, is a wayward adult, though he may find his purpose when he investigates what really happened to the murdered witness. Two thrilling trials braid together, medical malpractice and murder, jostling us back and forth…

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    $8.00

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    $10.00

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