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Novelist KAMILA SHAMS: Home Fire

August 17, 2017 | 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Coolidge Corner Library, 31 Pleasant St
Brookline, MA 02446 United States
Free

Brookline Booksmith hosts Pakistani novelist KAMILA SHAMSIE— author of Burnt Shadows, Kartography, and Salt and Saffron— for a reading from her latest novel, Home Fire, at the Coolidge Corner Public Library. After raising her orphaned twin siblings, Isma is free; but she can’t stop worrying about her beautiful sister back in London, or their brother, Parvaiz, who’s disappeared. When he […]

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7:00 pm

Screenplay writer MARK LAMPRELL’s One Summer Day in Rome with MARGARET EVANS

August 17, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Brookline Booksmith, 279 Harvard St
Brookline, MA 02446
Free

Brookline Booksmith welcomes MARK LAMPRELL, screenplay writer of Babe: Pig in the City and author of The Lovers' Guide to Rome, in conversation with Canadian journalist Margaret Evans for his newest book, One Summer Day in Rome. Alice, an art student in New York City, has come to Rome in search of adventure and inspiration before settling […]

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Award-winning author PAUL YOON at Harvard Book Store

August 17, 2017 | 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138 United States
Free

Harvard Book Store welcomes award-winning author PAUL YOON—Briggs-Copeland Lecturer at Harvard University and author of Once the Shore and Snow Hunters—for a reading from his latest book, The Mountain: Stories. In The Mountain, Paul Yoon displays his subtle, ethereal, and strikingly observant style with six thematically linked stories, taking place across several continents and time periods and populated with characters […]

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