Admission is free. There will be a reading and book signing and Halloween treats for kids.

Book sales will benefit the Arthur Hufnagel Public Library of Glen Rock.

Winik writes in the book's author's note:

"I got the idea to make a series of portraits of dead people I have
known, or who have touched me in some way, during a workshop taught
by the novelist Jane McCafferty in January of 2007. She gave a
writing assignment based on Stephen Dunn's lovely poem "Tenderness,"
in which the narrator remembers a woman he knew long ago.

"This made me think of The Jeweler, who had passed through my life
decades earlier. I scribbled down some lines down about him, his
paintings and his mangos, then recalled the circumstances of his
death, about which I had heard second-hand. At the same time, I felt
my brain begin to crowd up, as if tickets to a show had just gone on
sale and all my ghosts were screeching up at the box office. I
flipped to a clean page and started making a list of names. When the
workshop ended and I went home to the farm in Glen Rock where I live,
I was still working on my list. I began to think I could make
something like a modern version of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River
Anthology, except instead of fictional folks from a fictional town,
my subjects would be real people and the link between them would be me."