RSVP for Lunch for Libraries

press release: Save the date of Monday, April 17, 2023, for Lunch for Libraries featuring best-selling author Emily St. John Mandel! She’ll speak about her latest novel, Sea of Tranquility.

Our 12th annual spring fundraiser will be held at Monona Terrace Convention Center.

Lunch for Libraries tickets are $125 each, including a signed paperback copy of Sea of Tranquility. There is also an option to add on a discounted Wisconsin Book Festival membership. The deadline to purchase tickets is 4 pm, April 7.

View our Table Captain Information Sheet and Table Captain Reply Form to learn more about hosting your own table, or our Sponsorship Levels & Benefits document to pledge support and gain promotional benefits. Have more questions? Call 608.266.6318 or email events@mplfound​ation.org.

Canadian writer Emily St. John Mandel is the author of six novels, including Station Eleven (2014) and The Glass Hotel (2020). Station Eleven, the basis for the HBO Max series by the same name, has been translated into 36 languages and was a finalist for a National Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. Sea of Tranquility is a novel of art, time, love, and plague that takes the reader from Vancouver Island in 1912 to a dark colony on the moon 500 years later, unfurling a story of humanity across centuries and space. 

Lunch for Libraries proceeds support the Wisconsin Book Festival and Madison Public Library youth literacy efforts.