Jennifer E. Smith + Lauren Graham: Rabbit Rabbit

Join us for a release event with bestselling author Jennifer E. Smith, discussing her new novel RABBIT RABBIT. Moderating this discussion is award-winning actress, producer and bestselling author Lauren Graham. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street. Can’t make the event? Purchase a signed copy of Rabbit Rabbit here. ACCESSIBILITY: Strand Book Store is an ADA compliant venue. The event space is accessible via elevator. ASL interpretation is available for this event by request only. Please reach out to our events team at [email protected] by Dec. 1 to request. Please ask a Strand employee upon arrival for directions to accessible seating if preferred. For further information on accessibility in this space, or to make a request, please contact [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- A life-changing year. One month at a time. A heartwarming novel about what it means to chase the life — and love — of your dreams, from the bestselling author of The Unsinkable Greta James. As the clock counts down to midnight on New Year’s Eve, Billie — 39, single, an American film editor on a girls’ trip to Florence — makes a decision: this is the year she’s going to have a baby on her own. Less than an hour later, she meets Arthur — 44, single, a Scottish conservationist celebrating a friend’s stag party — who seems perfect but for his conviction that kids are not for him. Over the course of the next year, Billie finds herself pursuing both versions of her life, moving back and forth between visits to fertility clinics and romantic getaways around the world as she tries to figure out what she wants most. But as she approaches the inevitable fork in the road, she’ll discover that it’s not so easy to follow your heart when it’s pulling you in two very different directions. Full of Jennifer E. Smith’s signature heart and warmth, Rabbit Rabbit is a powerful romantic novel about paths not taken…and what happens when you meet the right person at the wrong time. Photo credit: Ariel Cannon Photography Jennifer E. Smith is the bestselling author of fifteen books, including The Unsinkable Greta James, Fun for the Whole Family, and the young adult novels The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight and Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between, both of which have been made into films. She earned a master’s degree in creative writing from the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and her work has been translated into thirty-four languages. She lives in Los Angeles with her son. Photo credit: Andrew Eccles Lauren Graham is an award-winning actress, producer, and New York Times bestselling author, best known for her work on the critically acclaimed television shows PARENTHOOD and GILMORE GIRLS. For her performance as ‘Lorelai Gilmore’ on GILMORE GIRLS (where she also served as producer in its final season), Graham was nominated for a Golden Globe Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Female Actor in a Drama Series, and two Television Critics Association Awards for Individual Achievement in both Drama and Comedy. Additionally, she earned two Teen Choice Awards, a Best Actress nod from Viewers for Quality Television, and was honored by Planned Parenthood as a “Champion of Choice” for her work with family issues on and off screen. Graham’s second essay collection, Have I Told You This Already? was released in November of 2022 and was her fourth book to appear on the New York Times Best Seller list. Recently, Graham starred in the Universal feature, REMINDERS OF HIM, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestselling novel, and the independent film TWINLESS with Dylan O’Brien. In October 2025, Graham received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.