Join Tacoma Public Library and host City of Tacoma Mayor Victoria Woodards for a conversation with National Book Award & bestselling author James McBride, whose novel The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store is the main title for Tacoma Reads 2024. Audience Q&A with James McBride and book signing to follow.

Registration opens two weeks prior to the event on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024 at 8 a.m.

Doors open at 4:30 p.m.