Wade Rouse, author of MAGIC SEASON - an in-person Boswell event

2559 North Downer Avenue,Milwaukee WI 53211

10 May, 2022

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Wade Rouse, author of MAGIC SEASON - an in-person Boswell event Boswell presents an evening with Wade Rouse, critically acclaimed author of multiple memoirs, for his latest, Magic Season: A Son's Story. Before his success in public relations, his loving marriage and his storied writing career, Wade Rouse was simply Ted Rouse's son. A queer kid in a conservative Ozarks community, Wade struggled at a young age to garner his father's approval and find his voice. For his part, Ted was a hard-lined engineer, offering little emotional support or encouragement. But Wade and Ted had one thing in common: an undying love of the St. Louis Cardinals. For decades, baseball offered Wade and his father a shared vocabulary--a way to stay in touch, to connect and to express their emotions. But when his father's health takes a turn for the worst, Wade returns to southwest Missouri to share one final season with his father. As the Cards race towards a dramatic pennant race, Wade and his father begin to open up in way they never thought possible. Together, inning by inning during their own magic season, they'll move towards forgiveness, reconciliation, and peace. Heartfelt, hilarious and lovingly rendered, Magic Season is an unforgettable story of love, family and forgiveness against the backdrop of America's favorite pastime. From bestselling author Jenny Lawson: "Honest, authentic, heartbreaking and healing. Magic Season explores, in such a poignant yet hopeful way, the complicated family relationships that break us and make us. I devoured it in one day." Wade Rouse is a popular award-winning memoirist and internationally bestselling author of 12 books translated into 20 languages and selected as Today Show Must-Reads, Indie Next Picks and Michigan Notable Book. Rouse writes fiction under his grandma’s name, Viola Shipman, to honor the woman whose heirlooms inspire his writing. He lives in Michigan and California, and hosts Wine & Words with Wade, A Literary Happy Hour, every Thursday. Purchase your copy of Magic Season: A Son's Story at https://www.boswellbooks.com/book/9781335475176. Signed copies and personalization available on pre-orders. Please note that signed copies will not be shipped until after the event.