Program Description
Off the Page Literary Celebration
The Off the Page Literary Celebration, hosted by Sarasota County Libraries and Historical Resources, features bestselling authors, writing workshops, book signings, and more during the month of November. All Sarasota County Libraries and Historical Resources locations participate. Events are also held at partner locations like Ringling College of Art and Design, or other offsite locations.
Books will be for sale at this event. The author will be available for book signing after the program.
Bestselling novelist Chris Bohjalian uses his hugely popular novels to explore compelling social and historical issues like human trafficking, domestic violence, and the Armenian genocide, as well as the more intimate challenges of marriage, parenting, and sexuality. In more than 20 books, most of which have been New York Times bestsellers, Bohjalian has cultivated a wide and devoted audience.
His breakout novel, "Midwives," was a #1 New York Times bestseller and an Oprah’s Book Club selection. Instant New York Times bestseller "The Flight Attendant" was praised by USA Today as an “expertly turned thriller…an assured novel about reckoning not just with some ruthless bad guys, but private sadness as well.” An Emmy-nominated HBO Max television adaptation starring Kaley Cuoco debuted in 2020, with NPR calling it a “fizzy, dark, and funny mystery.” Bohjalian’s latest novel is "The Jackal’s Mistress," a novel of historical fiction set during the Civil War.
Bohjalian’s books have been translated into 35 languages, and have been chosen as Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Hartford Courant, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Kirkus Reviews, Bookpage, and Salon.
Photo by Victoria Blewer.