Little Ships with Sandra Scofield
Schedule
Tue Jul 09 2024 at 07:00 pm
Location
220 N Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT | Missoula, MT
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About the Book: After adolescent sisters Juni and Tilde Becker wake up one morning to find their mother dead, their grandmothers appear the very next day to scoop up the girls and their inconsolable father, Nick, and take them home to small-town Oregon. The women are full of loving resolve, but good intentions are small guns against the waves of adolescence and the young family's shocking history. Besides, the women, at ages sixty and seventy, are at their own crossroads. Across the months of spring, Nick reels from heartbreak and guilt; the sisters drift apart in the shoals of middle school; three marriages are tested; and the grandmothers seek new footing—in their own lives and with each other. There's no best way forward, but making-do offers the girls—who need it most—a path to the future; and the women discover they have surprising futures of their own yet to live.About the Author: Sandra Scofield is a native Texan who has spent the last fifty years in Oregon and Montana. She taught in public schools (grades 2-10) and at the university level; since 2006 she has been on the faculty of the Solstice MFA low residency program at Lasell University. She has taught at the Iowa Summer Writing Festival since 1993. She is the author of eight novels, a memoir, a book of essays about family, a book of stories, a chapbook, and two craft books for writers. Her work has been warmly praised; she was a finalist for the National Book Award, among other honors. She is also an avid painter, a solitary traveler, a closet poet, and a grandmother. She has been married to Bill Ferguson since 1975. She lives in a multi-generational household in Missoula, Montana--with four dogs and a three-legged cat, as well.
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220 N Higgins Ave, Missoula, MT, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
