BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20240419T173000Z DTEND:20240419T190000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Friends of Jefferson County Public Library Annual Meeting featuring Author Talk with Award-Winning Author Erika Krouse DESCRIPTION:Join us for our Friends of Jefferson County Public Library Annual Meeting! Luncheon\, Author Talk and Book signing with bestselling novelist and true crime author Erika Krouse. Luncheon by Bono's Italian. Books will be on sale and booksigning post-event. \n\nAbout Erika Krouse Erika Krouse is the author of three books of fiction and nonfiction\, most recently Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation\, which is a New York Times Editors Choice\, winner of the Edgar Award\, the Colorado Book Award\, and the Housatonic Book Award\, and is currently optioned for TV adaptation. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Esquire.com\, and other places. Her new collection of short stories\, Save Me\, Stranger\, is forthcoming in 2024 from Flatiron Books/Macmillan.\n\n\n\nErika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this\," people say\, spilling confessions. In fall 2002\, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her\, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she's doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault\, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Erika knows she should turn the assignment down. Her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anyway\, inspired by Grayson's conviction that he could help change things forever. And maybe she could\, too. Over the next five years\, Erika learns everything she can about P. I. technique\, tracking down witnesses and investigating a culture of sexual assault and harassment ingrained in the university's football program. But as the investigation grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case that revolutionizes Title IX law\, Erika finds herself increasingly consumed. When the case and her life both implode at the same time\, Erika must figure out how to help win the case without losing herself. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us for our Friends of Jefferson County Public Library Annual Meeting! Luncheon\, Author Talk and Book signing with bestselling novelist and true crime author Erika Krouse. Luncheon by Bono'\;s Italian. \; Books will be on sale and booksigning post-event. \;

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About Erika Krouse \; Erika Krouse is the author of three books of fiction and nonfiction\, most recently Tell Me Everything: The Story of a Private Investigation\, which is a New York Times Editors Choice\, winner of the Edgar Award\, the Colorado Book Award\, and the Housatonic Book Award\, and is currently optioned for TV adaptation. Her short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Esquire.com\, and other places. Her new collection of short stories\, Save Me\, Stranger\, is forthcoming in 2024 from Flatiron Books/Macmillan.
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\nErika Krouse has one of those faces. "\;I don'\;t know why I'\;m telling you this\,"\; people say\, spilling confessions. In fall 2002\, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her\, but she quickly realizes she has no idea what she'\;s doing. Then a lawyer named Grayson assigns her to investigate a sexual assault\, a college student who was attacked by football players and recruits at a party a year earlier. Erika knows she should turn the assignment down. Her own history with sexual violence makes it all too personal. But she takes the job anyway\, inspired by Grayson'\;s conviction that he could help change things forever. And maybe she could\, too. Over the next five years\, Erika learns everything she can about P. I. technique\, tracking down witnesses and investigating a culture of sexual assault and harassment ingrained in the university'\;s football program. But as the investigation grows into a national scandal and a historic civil rights case that revolutionizes Title IX law\, Erika finds herself increasingly consumed. When the case and her life both implode at the same time\, Erika must figure out how to help win the case without losing herself.
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\n LOCATION:Wheat Ridge Rec Center 4005 Kipling St Wheat Ridge\, CO 80033 UID:e.551.9637 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260514T111625Z URL:https://business.goldenchamber.org/events/details/friends-of-jefferson-county-public-library-annual-meeting-featuring-author-talk-with-award-winning-author-erika-krouse-9637 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR