Loading Events
Find Events

Event Views Navigation

Events for February 11, 2020

Day Navigation

7:00 pm

Helen Fremont presents THE ESCAPE ARTIST at Brookline Booksmith Used Book Cellar

February 11, 2020 | 7:00 pm
Free

In the tradition of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home or George Hodgman’s Bettyville, Fremont writes with wit and candor about growing up in a household held together by a powerful glue: secrets. Her parents, profoundly affected by their memories of the Holocaust, pass on a penchant for keeping their lives neatly–even obsessively–compartmentalized, as well as a […]

Find out more »
+ Export Events

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.