The Luck We Carry, Barbara's Bookstore - Hawthorn Mall, Vernon Hills

Some books find you at exactly the right moment. The Luck We Carry is that kind of book.

Join Park Ridge author Ron Stempkowski at Barbara's Bookstore at Hawthorn Mall for an afternoon of reading, conversation, and signing. Ron will share essays from his debut memoir—stories of love, loss, laughter, and the unexpected grace that shows up when life cracks you open—then open the floor for the kind of conversation that makes you feel less alone.

The Luck We Carry follows Ron's decade-long love story with his late husband, Ken, and explores what it means to move with grief rather than past it. Told with humor and unflinching honesty, it's a book for anyone who has loved deeply, lost someone, and had to figure out who they are on the other side.

The foreword is by Claire Bidwell Smith, bestselling author and grief therapist.

Signed copies will be available. All…