Author Event - Lauren Johnson - The Souffle Also Rises
Wed, Sep 09
|The Book Loft Oak Park
Author Lauren Johnson will be at The Book Loft to discuss her novel The Souffle Also Rises, the first book in the The Lizi Cleverly Midlife Badass Detective series!
Time & Location
Sep 09, 2026, 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM
The Book Loft Oak Park, 1047 Lake St, Oak Park, IL 60301, USA
About the event
Join us Wednesday, September 9th at 6pm with author Lauren Johnson! Lauren will be celebrating the launch of The Souffle Also Rises, the first book in her new series, The Lizi Cleverly Midlife Badass Detective!
Out September 1st, books will be available for purchase and signing at The Book Loft!
It's 2008 and Lizi just can't catch a break. On the heels of a nasty divorce and a paltry settlement agreement--barely enough to reload her Starbucks card--Lizi is laid off from her job during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Flat broke, Lizi takes a job at Whole Foods where she meets Frankie, a twenty-seven-year-old artist half her age whose overly simplistic worldview is exactly what Lizi needs to get on with her life. But after an unfortunate incident involving her ex-husband, his pregnant girlfriend, and a carton of cage-free eggs, Lizi finds herself, once again, out of…