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GrubStreet and Harvard Book Store Present: New Voices in Fiction

August 8, 2016 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome 2016 PEN Hemingway Award finalist Margaret Malone and debut author Chris McCormick for a discussion of their books PEOPLE LIKE YOU and DESERT BOYS: FICTION.

Malone’s People Like You is a  marvelously funny, unsettling, subtle, and moving collection of stories, the characters exist in the thick of everyday experience absent of epiphanies. The people are caught off-guard or cast adrift by personal impulses even while wide awake to their own imperfections. Each voice will win readers over completely and break hearts with each confused and conflicted decision that is made. Every story is beautifully controlled and provocatively alive to its own truth.

Written by Chris Mcormick, Desert Boys intertwining stories illuminates the world of Daley Kushner—the family, friends and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. This luminous debut traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong.

Details

Date:
August 8, 2016
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Organizer

Harvard Book Store
Phone:
6176611515
Email:
info@harvard.com
Website:
harvard.com

Venue

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
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Website:
www.harvard.com

Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.