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Bank Square Books presents an author talk and signing with Ernest Thompson for his new book, Out Clause. 

About the Book 

What if you could leave your life? 

An unhappily married CEO jumps from a Connecticut bridge, body never found. A troubled flight attendant still mourning her lover lost on 9/11 goes missing from a cruise ship. An Arizona school teacher can’t reconcile the sexual compromise he’s been maneuvered into and steals money from a student kiosk and disappears. An internet sensation crosses the last line left and self-pleasures in front of an audience of millions and is spotted in Virginia boarding a hot-air balloon that’s empty when it crash lands. 500,000 Americans go missing every year, 1500 never return. Where are they and is there a connection? Yes. Welcome to Out Clause. 

About the Author 

Ernest Thompson’s work has won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, Writers Guild and Broadway Drama Guild Awards and been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy and a British Academy Award. His plays have been seen in theatres around the world, his most enduring, On Golden Pond, translated into 30 languages and presented in more than 40 countries. Current projects include an On Golden Pond Broadway revival, directed by and starring the author; true also of his new one-man play, Archie Parish’s Parting Words, now on tour; his newest play Grand Time; the short film The Constituent; and the movie sequel, Home On Golden Pond. His novel Out Clause arrives on May 5, 2026. A prolific lyricist, his song with Carly Simon, “The Father Daughter Dance,” will soon be playing at a wedding near you. With his writer wife Kerrin Thompson, he established Rescind Recidivism, a prison writing program giving inmates a chance to feel creative as well as human, capable and worthy.