We're thrilled to host an Author Talk with Sebastian Junger at Gloucester City Hall on May 23rd from 6-8pm! Join us for an evening with the renowned, Gloucester-favorite author as he shares insights into his latest work In My Time of Dying. We will have books available for sale at the event and time for book signing. This in-person event promises to be a memorable experience for all book lovers. Mark your calendars and we'll see you there!

Kyrouz Auditorium, Gloucester City Hall
9 Dale Ave
Gloucester MA 01930

THIS EVENT IS FREE BUT REGISTRATION IS REQUESTED: CLICK HERE

More about ‘In My Time of Dying’:

“A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death--and what might follow--by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.

For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. "It's okay," his father said. "There's nothing to be scared of. I'll take care of you." That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived.

This experience spurred Junger--a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical--to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions?

In My Time of Dying is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.”