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Join us for an evening with Bonnie Garmus, author of the New York Times bestselling novel Lessons in Chemistry. Garmus will present her second novel, Peck & Peck (Simon & Schuster Canada), which follows young poetry lover Batter Gray, who gets a job at a prestigious – albeit dysfunctional – New York literary journal, and must navigate eccentric staff, a bitter feud between twin editors, and life’s dualities.

Pre-signed books will be available for purchase at the event courtesy of Indigo. Bonnie will personalize copies or sign backlist titles after the conversation.

Included in TIFA 2026 Festival Passes, on sale August 13, 2026; single tickets available September 3, 2026.

Generously supported by Gail and Mark Appel.

Peck & Peck

The number one bestselling author of global sensation Lessons in Chemistry returns with an irresistible, delightful, and tender story about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck of New York City. Batter Gray is worried about his future. Even when he was eleven, his classmates seemed to have settled on a goal: doctor, lawyer, broker, engineer.

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Bonnie Garmus

Bonnie Garmus is a coffee-dependent American novelist. Her debut novel, Lessons in Chemistry, was a Good Morning America Book Club Pick, a Goodreads Choice Best Book of the Year, spent nearly two years on the New York Times bestseller list and was named by Times readers as one of the top 100 books of the 21st century.

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