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Kate Walbert
A Short History of Women
(Scribner 2009)
Wednesday, July 8, 7PM
Chelsea neighbor and longtime friend of 192 Books, Kate Walbert will maker her first appearance here, reading from her acclaimed new novel, A Short History of Women. This marvelous book is a profoundly moving portrayal of the complicated legacies of mothers and daughters, chronicling five generations of women from the close of the nineteenth century through the early years of the twenty-first.
As she did in her critically acclaimed The Gardens of Kyoto and Our Kind, Walbert induces "a state in which the past seems to hang effortlessly amid the present" (The New York Times). A Short History of Women is her most ambitious novel, a thought-provoking and vividly original narrative that crisscrosses a century to reflect the tides of time and the ways in which the lives of our great-grandmothers resonate in our own.
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Books purchased at the reading will be signed by the author!
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