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SUMMARY:Patricia Foster: A Marriage in Startled Air
DESCRIPTION:In A Marriage in Startled Air\, Patricia Foster shares the dramatic story of how the diagnosis of her husband’s rare cancer changed the dynamics of their marriage and opened the door to the hidden world of his childhood\, revealing the seeds of trauma and childhood PTSD. In vivid\, often poetic prose\, Foster reflects on how the journey of recovery—and discovery—between two artists in a relatively happy marriage leads to difficult conversations about family\, memory\, identity\, and aging. Within this unburdening\, Patricia and David discover a new map of intimacy: Once the illusion of normalcy is broken\, what emerges is something sweeter and deeper\, as if the broken thing becomes\, ironically\, the healing thing.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/patricia-foster-a-marriage-in-startled-air/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Ron Rindo: Life\, and Death\, and Giants
DESCRIPTION:Gabriel Fisher was born an orphan\, weighing eighteen pounds and measuring twenty-seven inches long. No one in Lakota\, Wisconsin\, knows what to make of him. He walks at eight months\, communicates with animals\, and seems to possess extraordinary athletic talent. But when the older brother who has been caring for him dies\, Gabriel is taken in by his devout Amish grandparents who disapprove of all the attention and hide him away from the English world. \nBut it’s hard to hide forever when you’re nearly eight feet tall. At seventeen\, Gabriel is spotted working in a hay field by the local football coach. What happens next transforms not only Gabriel’s life but the lives of everyone he meets. \nLife\, and Death\, and Giants is a moving story of faith\, family\, buried secrets\, and everyday miracles.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/ron-rindo-life-and-death-and-giants/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Harriet Clark: The Hill
DESCRIPTION:Suzanna Klein was a baby when her mother got up early one morning to rob a bank with a group of fellow radicals. Now\, every Saturday\, Suzanna lines up at the prison gates among the other children\, each dressed as if for celebration. Inside there is a nursery and a cemetery; there are watchful guards and distractable nuns; there are women counting down to release and women like Suzanna’s mother\, who will never be released. \nAt home\, Suzanna is raised by her grandmother\, who is entirely unforgiving of her daughter’s crime and refuses to visit the prison. Surrounding Suzanna are her grandmother’s friends\, who know one another from their years in the Communist Party and still spend extended cocktail hours debating the Hitler-Stalin pact. Though these women once insisted on changing the world\, they are torn between teaching Suzanna how the world works and shielding her from it. \nSuzanna vows to return to the prison forever but her mother wants her to be free. Harriet Clark’s The Hill is an incandescent novel of a child growing up between worlds\, the last of three generations whose fates have been tied to punishment. It is the tale of a family broken apart by the desire for change\, told with irreverent wisdom and visionary force.
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/harriet-clark-the-hill/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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SUMMARY:Michael McCarty: Eerie Iowa
DESCRIPTION:Witness the Darker Side of the Hawkeye State \nThe farmlands and rural areas of Iowa are no stranger to the weird\, dark and mysterious. Learn about a terrestrial sighting from 1903\, a creepy cryptid that terrorized the town of Van Meter. Find out about Bigfoot sightings in Calhoun County. Peer under the waters of Lake Okoboji to find a huge lake monster. Read the history of a frightening sculpture based on a story by Franz Kafka and hear a premonition that predicted a devastating fire. Five-time Bram Stoker Finalist author Michael McCarty and Professor Emeritus Bruce Walters forge a twisted path through shadowy\, Gothic Iowa. Do you dare follow?
URL:https://www.iowacityofliterature.org/event/michael-mccarty-eerie-iowa/
LOCATION:Prairie Lights Books\, 15 S. Dubuque St.\, Iowa City\, IA\, 52240\, United States
CATEGORIES:Iowa City Book Festival
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