BookPeople Presents: Rainbow Rowell - Cherry Baby
Date & Time
📅 Tue, Apr 21, 2026
🕐 Time TBD
Ends: Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 1:00 AM
Location
📍 BookPeople
603 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX 78703, United States, Austin, TX, 78703
🏙️ Austin
About This Event
BookPeople welcomes Rainbow Rowell to celebrate the release of Cherry Baby.
Please welcome Rainbow Rowell to celebrate Cherry Baby!
This event is ticketed.
- Start time: 7:00 P.M.
- Run time: 60-80 minutes, followed by a signing line.
- Location: The second floor of BookPeople.
The author will be signing copies of the book after the speaking portion of the event.
- In order to get a book signed, you must have purchased a ticket (which includes a copy of the book).
- The author will sign your included copy of Cherry Baby, any additional books purchased at the event, and one additional book brought from home.
- For high volume events, post-talk signing lines can become very long. For such events, we recommend arriving and checking in to the event early as that will get you into an earlier signing group.
If you buy a ticket and are unable to attend:
- We will hold your book at BookPeople for 30 days after the event.
- We cannot guarantee that your book will be signed. While we do our best to try and get all event books signed, priority is given to event attendees and any extra stock is dependent on the author’s availability.
Guidelines:
- Ticket-holders will be checked in starting at 6:30 P.M. Please have a copy of your ticket available (either printed out or on your phone) for check in.
- Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis (and is not guaranteed)
- There will not be a live stream or recording available.
- BookPeople reserves the right to cancel or postpone this event if necessary.
- All event guidelines are subject to change.
- If you have any other questions, please visit our Eventbrite FAQ. If your question is not covered by the FAQ, feel free to email us at online@bookpeople.com.
About the book:
#1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about a woman who lost everything — and isn't sure she wants it back.
Everybody knows that Cherry's husband, Tom, is in Hollywood making a movie . . .
Almost nobody knows that he isn't coming home.
Tom is the creator of Thursday—a semi-autobiographical webcomic that's become an international phenomenon.
Semi-autobiographical. That means there's a character in this movie based on Cherry . . . "Baby."
Wide-hipped, heavy-chested, double-chinned Baby.
Cherry never wanted this. No fat girl wants to see herself caricatured on the page—let alone on the big screen. But there's no getting away from it. Baby looks so much like Cherry that strangers recognize her at the grocery store.
While her soon-to-be ex-husband is in Los Angeles getting rich and famous and being the Internet's latest boyfriend, Cherry is stuck in Omaha taking care of the dog he always wanted and the house they were going to raise a family in . . . and wondering who she's supposed to be without him.
Cherry had promised to love Tom through thick and thin.
She'd meant it.
One night, Cherry decides to leave all her problems, including Tom's overgrown puppy, at home. She ventures out to see her favorite band play her favorite album . . . and someone recognizes her from across the room.
Russ Sutton knew Cherry when she was a young art student with a fondness for pin-up dresses and patent leather heels. Before Tom.
Russ knows Cherry. He likes Cherry.
And best of all . . . he's never heard of Thursday.
Tender, funny, and utterly human, Cherry Baby is Rainbow Rowell's richest, most surprising—sexiest—novel yet.
About the author:
Rainbow Rowell is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Slow Dance, Eleanor & Park, and the Simon Snow trilogy, as well as several other award-winning novels, short stories, and comics. She lives with her family in Omaha, Nebraska.
By purchasing a book from BookPeople, you are not only supporting a local, independent business – you’re showing publishers that they should continue sending authors to BookPeople.
Thank you for supporting Rainbow Rowell and your local independent bookstore!
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BookPeople
603 North Lamar Boulevard, Austin, TX 78703, United States, Austin, TX, 78703
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USD 35.17
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Duration
1 hour
Refund Policy
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