Join New York Times best-selling author and PEN/Faulkner Award finalist Claire Messud for a reading of her latest novel The Burning Girl.
Julia and Cassie have been friends since nursery school. They have shared everything, including their desire to escape the stifling limitations of their birthplace, the quiet town of Royston, Massachusetts. But as the two girls enter adolescence, their paths diverge and Cassie sets out on a journey that will put her life in danger and shatter her oldest friendship.
The Burning Girl is a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about youth and friendship, and straddles, expertly, childhood’s imaginary worlds and painful adult reality―crafting a true, immediate portrait of female adolescence. Brilliantly mixing fable and coming-of-age tale, The Burning Girl gets to the heart of these matters in an absolutely irresistible way.
Claire‘s reading will be followed by a Q & A with the audience.
Free (online RSVP registration required)
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2018/01/11 - 2018/01/11
City of Asylum @ Alphabet City
40 W. North Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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