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- **Posted:** 2024-06-11T14:00:46.000+00:00
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⭐ "What scares me is the notion we are all one rotten moment, one crushed hope or hollow stomach from stuffing someone blameless in a cage." —Leif Enger, I CHEERFULLY REFUSE

A new season of Ten Evenings is fast approaching! We’re excited to host celebrated novelist Leif Enger on December 9. Enger will join us to discuss his bestselling new book, I CHEERFULLY REFUSE.

Set in a not-too-distant America, I CHEERFULLY REFUSE is the tale of a bereaved and pursued musician embarking under sail on a sentient Lake Superior in search of his departed bookselling wife. Rainy, an endearing bear of an Orphean narrator, seeks refuge in the harbors, fogs and remote islands of the inland sea. Encountering lunatic storms and rising corpses from the warming depths, Rainy finds on land an increasingly desperate and illiterate people, a malignant billionaire ruling class, crumbled infrastructure and a lawless society. 

Amidst the Gulliver-like challenges of life at sea and no safe landings, Rainy is lifted by physical beauty, surprising humor, generous strangers, and an unexpected companion in a young girl who comes aboard. And as his innate guileless nature begins to make an inadvertent rebel of him, Rainy’s private quest for the love of his life grows into something wider and wilder, sweeping up friends and foes alike in his strengthening wake. I CHEERFULLY REFUSE epitomizes the “musical, sometimes magical and deeply satisfying kind of storytelling” (Los Angeles Times) for which Leif Enger is cherished.

Subscribe to Ten Evenings at pittsburghlectures.org—or give us a call and tell us who you’re most excited to see! Full-season in-person and virtual subscriptions are now open, including our student discount: $120 for a GA subscription with a valid student ID.

And don’t forget to swing by whitewhalebks for your copy of I CHEERFULLY REFUSE, in addition to Leif Enger’s previous titles. We’re stoked to bring back post-lecture book signings this upcoming season! 📚

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