Written Arts Program and Office of Alumni/ae Affairs Present
A Reading by Novelist Barbara Roether
Friday, April 1, 2016
Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center
6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Barbara Roether MFA ’87 reads from her new novel, This Earth You’ll Come Back To, introduced by Robert Kelly.6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
The reading takes place at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, April 1st, in the Seena and Arnold Davis ’44 Living Room at the Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center and is free and open to the public; no tickets or reservations are required.
PRAISE FOR THIS EARTH YOU’LL COME BACK TO—
“From her afterlife a newly dead mother watches her restless wandering daughter arriving, late as usual, at the cemetery. Skeptic, forgiving, loving, the mother tells us the girl’s story, about her wanderings and the whole family from which she wandered. This is an astonishing narrative feat, a self-portrait through the eyes of the Other, the Mother. Through her unforgettable debut novel, Roether sustains a luminous and compassionate embrace of how we fail, and fail each other, and life still goes richly on.” —Robert Kelly
For more information, call 845-758-7054, e-mail [email protected],
or visit http://www.barbararoether.com.
Time: 6:00 pm EDT/GMT-4
Location: Anne Cox Chambers Alumni/ae Center