On January 16, 2010 at 11 a.m., Helen Gallagher, local author of Release Your Writing: Book Publishing Your Way, and Marguerite O’Connor, author of Griefstruck, along with friends of The Book Stall will read works from Sisters: An Anthology, a collection of fiction, essays, poems and a play celebrating the beautifully complex world of sisters.
Please plan to join us, bring your sister, and email Helen@cclarity.com if you'd like to be one of the readers from the book. Impromptu readings will also be encouraged.
Sisters: An Anthology includes contributions from many classic women writers, such as Margaret Atwood, Delia Ephron, M.F.K. Fisher, Alice Walker and Wendy Wasserstein. Grace Paley’s brief poem “I Need to Talk to My Sister” is not for the fainthearted, for there is no love without loss. Perhaps the most unusual piece is Jane Bowles’s playful pair of quarreling sister puppets.
More than a compilation of essays on a theme, Sisters: An Anthology provides a rare chronology of sisters throughout life. The anthology seems to effortlessly follow us along the age continuum from “I want to reach through the telephone and strangle my sister” to the Delaney sisters, over 100 years old, who do yoga by the television every day, although “sometimes Bessie cheats and she’s just lying there.” The Delaney sisters are an example of the complexity of the entire sister relationship, where one wakes up each day and says “Thank you, Lord, for another day,” and the other wakes up and says “Oh, Lord, another day?"
Everyone who is, has, wants, or needs a sister will find kinship in this book. Join us for this fun, free event. ... AND note the Book Stall is hosting another writer's event at 3 p.m. (see below).
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