Events

Anita Diamant, bestselling author of The Red Tent, and Co-founder of Left Bank Books, will be reading from and discussing her new novel Day After Night!PLUS:   How Left Bank Books Started as the People's Bookstore and Became a St. Louis InstitutionA 40th ANNIVERSARY conversation and reception with Left Bank Books co-founders Anita Diamant, Terry Koch and current store owners Barry Leibman, Kris Kleindienst, Jarek Steele and anyone else who cares to pipe in.  Memories, fun, food, drink!As part of our 40th Anniversary Special, Friends of Left Bank Books and members of registered reading groups receive 20% off Day After Night at the event.    The best-selling author of Good Harbor and The Last Days of Dogtown returns to the geography of The Red Tent and reimagines a true event in the aftermath of World War II in Day After Night, an intensely dramatic, profoundly sad new novel.Anita Diamant portrays richly imagined female characters in a haunting fictionalization of the post-Holocaust experience. Atlit is a holding camp for "illegal" immigrants in Israel in 1945. There, about 270 men and women await their future and try to recover from their past. Diamant, with infinite compassion and understanding, tells the stories of the women gathered in this place.