Abider by Melissa Crowe and Everything Lost Returns by Sarah Domet
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About the books:
ABIDER
Equal parts sad, sexy, and searching, Abider opens with the central lament/brag of its lover-speaker, that she can never truly leave anything--or anyone--behind. The origins of this abidingness are traced in odes and elegies for a rural girlhood beset with jeopardy and scarcity and neglect. But it was also good-wild, conducive to a reckless freedom she can't help grieving, even as she falls in love at sixteen and marries hard. Meanwhile, other, electric connections are painfully delimited by heteronormative expectations, and her growing dis-ease reveals that she has been trying (and failing) to heal by remaining where she is harmed. She wants--this harrowed, semi-feral girl turned unswerving woman--to stay and go at once, and the tension between her desire for connection and her wish to escape threatens her sense of self and animates these vivid, urgent, tenderhearted poems. Right on time, then, a secret third thing emerges: a final, lush and lucid sonnet sequence that culminates in a promise to abide--first, foremost, always--the self.
EVERYTHING LOST RETURNS
Set in 1920 and 1986, when Halley's Comet was last visible from earth, Everything Lost Returns is a heartfelt, dual timeline historical novel following a soap opera star and a factory worker It's 1910, and as Halley's Comet approaches, the world is holding its breath. Opal, on the run from her abusive husband, has become an Earthshine girl - working in a factory owned by the illustrious Tuttle family to make the extremely popular Earthshine soap. Despite her newfound financial independence, Opal can't help but notice that many of the Earthshine girls are falling sick, and they all suffer the same symptoms - is it possible that the soap, and the Tuttle family, are responsible? Meanwhile, in 1986, Halley's Comet once again makes its way toward earth. Struggling soap opera actress Nona Dixon owes everything to Bertie Tuttle, who put Nona's face on Earthshine soap when she was a child and made her a star. But when Nona starts doing some digging on her benefactor, she begins to uncover a dark history surrounding Bertie, Opal, and the soap that binds all three women together. Gorgeously written and intricately constructed, Everything Lost Returns is a story of friendship and betrayal, guilt and redemption, and the power we have, in our own small way, to change the course of history
About the authors:
Melissa Crowe holds an MFA in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College and a PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She is the author of Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) and Lo (University of Iowa Press, 2023), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and in 2021 she was awarded the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Her work has appeared in 32 Poems, Image, the New England Review, Poetry Northwest, and the Rumpus, among other places, and has been featured at Poetry Daily and in the Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day series. She is the chair of the Department of Creative Writing at UNCW, where she teaches poetry and publishing.
Sarah Domet is the author of the novels The Guineveres and Everything Lost Returns, and the craft book 90 Days to Your Novel. She is a professor and the coordinator of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Accessibility note: This event is up two flights of stairs and Lost City Books does not have an elevator. Please contact [email protected] with questions.
Dato de accesibilidad: Este evento toma lugar en el segundo piso y Lost City Books no tiene ascensor. Favor de contactar [email protected] con cualquiera duda.
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