Thursday, June 8th 6:30-8:00 PM, RSVP to attend an evening with Emily Hund and Sara Petersen, in conversation with Jo Piazza Tuesday, June 6th, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Jane Roper, author of The Society of Shame Tuesday, June 2nd, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Mark Paul, in Conversation with Nikil Saval. Thursday, June 1st, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Luke Russert, author of Look For Me There: Grieving My father, Finding Myself Unconventional Life Lessons for Thinking Bigger, Leading Better, and Being Bolder Thursday, May 18th, at 8:00 PM, in partnership with The Kimmel Center, Sasha Velour, The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Dragįriday, May 19th, 6:30 PM, An Evening with Rupal Patel, author of From CIA to CEO: POSTPONED UNTIL FALL OF 2023, FORMERLY Friday, May 12th, at 6:30 PM, An Evening with Three Authors Featured in Ab(solutely) Normal: Short Stories that Smash Mental Health Stereotypes.It is up to the reader to pass judgement, to feel and react. Greenwood simply tells the story in beautiful language and brings the characters to life so vividly they live in your memory long after you close the book. The strength of it lies in the author’s refusal to force a view or opinion on the reader. It will make you question the world and yourself. It is a tale of love, woe, sadness, happiness, violence and compassion: a tale of all the ugly and wonderful things humans do to each other. What follows is a tale that spans around fifteen years told from the perspectives of Wavy, Kellen, Wavy’s brother, her cousin, her aunt, her teachers, friends and her father’s thugs. Then everything changes when Kellen, a giant tattooed ex-con and thug for her father, crashes into her life. The one thing that brings her peace is the starry night sky above the fields behind her house. At eight, she rarely speaks-“Don’t you ever talk to people! You don’t talk to anyone!”-or eats-“Don’t eat that! That’s dirty!” She spends her days struggling to raise her little brother, surviving her mother’s moods and avoiding her father. Wavy, born in the backseat of a stranger’s car to a meth dealer and a mentally ill mother, is not what anyone would call normal. Be aware this book will make you lose sleep and wreak havoc with your emotions. I have never read anything like it, and don’t expect to ever find something like it again.
All the Ugly and Wonderful Things by Bryn Greenwood is a book that will stay with me for years to come.
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