BookPeople Presents: An Evening with Alina Grabowski

Name: BookPeople Presents: An Evening with Alina Grabowski
Start: 2024-05-23T19:00:00-05:00
Location: 603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78703

Schedule

Thu May 23 2024 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

603 N Lamar Blvd, Austin, TX, United States, Texas 78703 | Austin, TX

Nashquitten, MA, is a decaying coastal enclave that not even tourist season can revive, full of locals who have run the town’s industries for generations. When a young woman dies at a house party, the circumstances around her death suspiciously unclear, the tight-knit community is shaken. As a mother grieves her daughter, a teacher her student, a best friend her confidante, the events around the tragedy become a lightning rod: blame is cast, secrets are buried deeper. Some are left to pick up the pieces, while others turn their backs, and all the while, a truth about that dreadful night begins to emerge.
Told through the eyes of ten local women, Grabowski’s Women and Children First is an exquisite portrait of grief and a powerful reminder of life’s interconnectedness. Touching on womanhood, class, and sexuality, ambition, disappointment, and tragedy, this novel is a stunning rendering of love and loss, and a bracing lesson from a phenomenal new literary talent that no one walks this earth alone.