Silas House talks books at the Friends of the Libraries’ Fall Reception, Nov. 2

Join the Friends of the Libraries for our Fall Reception and spend an evening with New York Times bestselling author Silas House as he discusses his novel, Lark Ascending, winner of the 2023 Southern Book Prize. The event is on Thursday, Nov. 2, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. in the Hunt Library’s Duke Energy Hall. 

Purchase tickets to the event here. Copies of House’s novel will be available for purchase and signing after the event. 

The reception will also feature the presentation of the Libraries Faculty Awards, the recognition of new FOL Life Members, and a show-and-tell of archival treasures from our Special Collections Research Center. 

Silas House is the nationally bestselling author of the novels Clay’s Quilt (2001), A Parchment of Leaves (2003), The Coal Tattoo (2005), Eli the Good (2009), Same Sun Here (co-authored with Neela Vaswani, 2012), Southernmost (2018), and Lark Ascending (2022), as well as Something’s Rising (2009), a book of creative nonfiction co-authored with Jason Howard, and three plays. 

Lark Ascending is a novel set in the near future about a young Appalachian man walking across Ireland with a dog and a mysterious woman after an environmental catastrophe. The novel was a SIBA bestseller and has also been chosen as a Booklist Editor’s Choice, one of Salon’s favorite books of the year, one of Garden and Gun’s selections for Best Southern Books of 2022, and a top-ten most recommended book by independent booksellers across the nation in the monthly Indie Next List.

Ticket information:

• $30 FOL Member
• $45 FOL Couple 
• $40 Non-­FOL attendee 
• $65 Non-­FOL couple
• $20 Young alumnus
• $30 Young alumnus couple
• $22 Pre-signed copy of Lark Ascending

All funds raised by Friends of the Libraries Fall Reception with Silas House are collected and managed by the NC State University Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization (tax ID 56-6049503).