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MARIANNE LEONE and MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD Discuss Her New Memoir, Ma Speaks Up

June 22, 2017 | 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

Free

MICHAEL PATRICK MACDONALD, author of All Souls: A Family Story from Southie will be in conversation with MARIANNE LEONE, author of Jesse: A Mother’s Story and the newly released, Ma Speaks Up, at the Central Library in Copley Square on Thursday June 22nd at 6pm. Both authors will read from their works, before sitting down to discuss memoir-writing and the transformation of personal loss into a voice and platform for empathic civic discourse and grassroots action.

Seating is first come, first served. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m.

Details

Date:
June 22, 2017
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
http://www.bpl.org/programs/author_series.htm

Venue

Boston Public Library, Central Library in Copley Square
700 Boylston Street
Boston, MA 02116 United States
Phone:
617.536.5400
Website:
www.bpl.org

Organizer

Rebecca Campbell
Phone:
6178592382
Email:
rcampbell@bpl.org

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.