Claire Messud author event
When:
Monday, Oct 23, 2017 7:00p -
8:30p
Monday, Oct 23, 2017 7:00p -
8:30p
Where:
Wellesley Books
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
Admission:
$5
Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
http://store.wellesleybooks.com/event/claire-messud
Please note that this is a ticketed event. Your $5 ticket can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. Click the link on the left to buy.
ABOUT "THE BURNING GIRL"
A bracing, hypnotic coming-of-age story about the bond of best friends, from the New York Times best-selling author of The Emperor’s Children.
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship. The Burning Girl is a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about youth and friendship, and straddles, expertly, childhood’s imaginary worlds and painful adult reality—crafting a true, immediate portrait of female adolescence.
Claire Messud, one of our finest novelists, is as accomplished at weaving a compelling fictional world as she is at asking the big questions: To what extent can we know ourselves and others? What are the stories we create to comprehend our lives and relationships? Brilliantly mixing fable and coming-of-age tale, The Burning Girl gets to the heart of these matters in an absolutely irresistible way.
ABOUT CLAIRE MESSUD
Claire Messud is a recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Author of five previous works of fiction including her most recent novel, The Woman Upstairs, she lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her family.
*Buy your copy from Wellesley Books in order to meet Claire and have her sign your book at the event.
**Your $5 ticket can be used as a coupon off the price of the book. You can buy your book in advance or at the event.
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