Amber Sparks with Rachel Vorona Cote: HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE

A novel of neighbors, mothers, and ghosts. A misty garden setting. A book event for spooky season.

Join us in a secret location of the gardens behind the Ivy bookshop to hear from Amber Sparks, author of HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE, as she discusses this story of long-buried secrets, family--chosen or otherwise--and the sometimes dangerous myths we make to keep ours together.

Rachel Vorona Cote, who writes on the enduring legacies of Victorian constraints on contemporary women, will join Amber in conversation.

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Amber Sparks is the author of the short story collections And I Do Not Forgive You and The Unfinished World. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Granta, Slate, and elsewhere. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, daughter, and cats.

Rachel Vorona Cote publishes frequently in such outlets as the New Republic, Longreads, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Literary Hub, Catapult, the Poetry Foundation, Hazlitt, and the Los Angeles Review of Books, where her essay on Taylor Swift and Victorian female friendship was one of the site’s most read essays in 2015. She was also previously a contributing writer at Jezebel. Rachel holds a BA from the College of William and Mary and was ABD in a doctoral program in English at the University of Maryland, studying and teaching the literature of the Victorian period. She and her husband live in Takoma Park, MD, just outside of Washington, D.C..

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