Author Heather McCalden celebrates the release of The Observable Universe: An Investigation with a conversation and book signing event.Join us in the bookstore on Saturday, April 13th at 3PM for the book launch of The Observable Universe: An Investigation. Author Heather McCalden will be in conversation with Cyrus Dunham with book signing with Heather to follow. PRE-ORDER A SIGNED COPY OF THE OBSERVABLE UNIVERSEIs anyone ever truly lost in the internet age? A moving, original memoir of a young woman reckoning with her parents’ absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyperconnected world.“Brilliantly innovative . . . syncing a narrative of profoundly personal emotion with the invention and evolution of today’s cyberspace.”—William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The PeripheralIn the early 1990s, Heather McCalden lost both her parents to AIDS. She was seven when her father died, ten when she lost her mother. Raised by her grandmother, Nivia, she grew up in Los Angeles, also known as ground zero for the virus and its destruction.Years later, she begins researching online the history of HIV as a way to deal with her loss, which leads her to the unexpected realization that the Read More ...