Rachel Stolzman Gullo + Anne Hellman: Confuse the Wind

Join us for a release event with Rachel Stolzman Gullo for a discussion of her new book Confuse the Wind. Joining Rachel in conversation is Brooklyn-based writer Anne Hellman. This event will be hosted in the Strand Book Store's 3rd floor Rare Book Room at 828 Broadway on 12th Street.

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As a skyscraper engineer, Jonathan Brooks, has always believed that a skyscraper is either made correctly or incorrectly, and all problems have solutions. He has yet to learn that people are made differently. When his son Theo fell ill with encephalitis at fourteen months old, he and his wife Carly were devastated to learn that Theo’s setbacks would be long-lasting, possibly permanent. Theo is now seven years old and not yet walking or fully verbal, and Jonathan and Carly are living apart. The broken family’s world is upturned by the arrival of Aimee, a complicated young Irish woman who begins working as Theo's nanny in ways Jonathan does not trust. But as Aimee brings about new advancements for Theo their bond grows, until Aimee’s own personal crisis rocks the family and shows them all a new way forward. Confuse the Wind is a book about our human interdependence and how we desperately need one another to survive and hopefully thrive.

Rachel Stolzman Gullo is the author of two novels, The Sign for Drowning and Practice Dying. Confuse the Wind is her third novel. She earned her MFA in creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. In addition to writing, she works in the harm reduction field. She lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.

Anne Hellman is a Brooklyn-based writer and author whose stories and essays have appeared in Catapult, Tertulia, and other publications. She founded The Grandmother Project website (grandmotherproject.net) in 2020 and is currently a Writing Mentor for Girls Write Now. Anne is at work on a horror novella as well as a longer novel. In nonfiction, she published Design Brooklyn with Abrams in 2013.

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