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Memoirist SARAH SMARSH talks about debut book Heartland with author LINDA K. WERTHEIMER

October 2, 2018 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Free

Sarah Smarsh, reporter and essayist, presents “Heartland,” her eye-opening and eloquent memoir about working-class poverty in the American Midwest, in conversation with Boston-based Linda K. Wertheimer, author of “Faith Ed, Teaching About Religion In An Age Of Intolerance.” Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side.

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Date:
October 2, 2018
Time:
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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https://store.wellesleybooks.com/event/sarah-smarsh

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Wellesley Books
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781-431-1160
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Wellesley Books
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482 United States
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Phone:
781-431-1160
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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.