Author Visit with Caoilinn Hughes

Join us at the ICC for a special evening with award-winning Irish author Caoilinn Hughes on Tuesday, April 22. The ICC's Book Club also chose her latest novel, The Alternatives, as April's book club selection.

This event is free and open to everyone – whether you're a book club member or simply a fan of great literature! We kindly ask that you register in advance.

Doors open at 4:30 pm, with the presentation, including readings and a lively Q&A, running from 5:30–6:30 pm. The Trinity Pub bar will be open, and after the talk, we invite you to stay and enjoy complimentary pizza and salad. Feel free to bring a dessert to share if you'd like.

We look forward to welcoming you for an engaging and enjoyable evening!

About the Author
Caoilinn Hughes's latest novel is The Alternatives, a New York Times Editor's Choice. Her second novel, The Wild Laughter won the Royal Society of Literature's Encore Award and was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize, and her debut Orchid & the Wasp won the Collyer Bristow Prize and was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. Her short stories have won the Irish Book Awards' Story of the Year, The Moth Story Prize, and an O.Henry Prize. She was recently the Oscar Wilde Writer Fellow at Trinity College Dublin and a Cullman Center Fellow at New York Public Library.

Praise for The Alternatives
“Exuberant. . . . to categorize this novel into a tidy box undermines the daring genius of its author. . . . Hughes’s prose is like a virtuosic jazz number — loose, free and surprising. . . . A bold, beautiful, complex novel.” —New York Times Book Review

“The Alternatives contains multitudes. Its mysteries and complexities reward a second reading. . . [its] ending is a stunner. And Olwen, Maeve, Nell and Rhona make it unforgettable.” —Star Tribune

“Funny, intelligent, tenderhearted, and aching. . . . Hughes is one of the greatest writers of dialogue at work today. She is peerless in her ability to develop and communicate complex ideas through witty banter and possesses remarkable range in her ability to write across various points of view. Her sentences are to be relished. . . . We need more writers like Hughes.” —Electric Literature

Host or Publisher Irish Cultural Center of Western New England