Join us at Books & Books in Coral Gables for an evening with author Thomas Swick, in conversation with award-winning journalist Carlos Frías, celebrating the paperback release of Falling Into Place: A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer.
Wednesday, September 2, 2026 at 7:00 p.m.
Books & Books, 265 Aragon Avenue, Coral Gables, FL 33134
Free and open to the public. RSVP is encouraged; seating is not guaranteed, so please arrive early. Books will be available for purchase and signing.
About the book
In 1976, a young feature writer named Thomas Swick fell in love with a Polish student named Hania. Falling Into Place braids three stories into one: his own quest to become a travel writer, Poland’s long struggle to regain its independence, and the love story that carried him to Warsaw. Living there with Hania through the waning days of the Cold War, Swick watched a nation change from the inside, at the same moment travel writing itself was going through a renaissance. The book carries a foreword by Pico Iyer and earned a starred review from Booklist, which praised Swick for observing the world “keenly and empathically.”
Falling Into Place: A Story of Love, Poland, and the Making of a Travel Writer (Bloomsbury Publishing, $19.95 paperback).
About Thomas Swick
Thomas Swick was the travel editor of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel from 1989 to 2008, a stretch in which the paper appeared in the first nine editions of The Best American Travel Writing. He is the author of four earlier books, among them Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland, and his work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals, and anthologies. He lives in Fort Lauderdale with his wife, Hania.
About Carlos Frías
Carlos Frías is an award-winning journalist and the author of the memoir Take Me with You: A Secret Search for Family in a Forbidden Cuba. A two-time James Beard Award winner, he shared in a Pulitzer Prize during his years at the Miami Herald and hosted Sundial, the daily arts and culture program on South Florida’s NPR affiliate.
Co-presented by The American Institute of Polish Culture, Inc. and Books & Books.
