Those Who Vanish: Author Patricia Grace King in Conversation with Mark Schimmoeller
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Join author Patricia Grace King, in conversation with Mark Schimmoeller, as they discuss her debut novel, Those Who Vanish. A signing will follow, with books available for purchase from Poor Richard's Books.
Taking place during the decades-long civil conflict, Those Who Vanish follows the stories of Guatemalan citizens and North American expats set on a collision course by war. Martyrs and missionaries, guerrillas and gringos are thrown together amid political violence. A peace worker shelters a rebel fighter. An exile returns to confront the legacy of her parents’ murders. The Virgin Mary begins appearing above an elderly woman’s stove. Set in a world of daily disappearances, the collection addresses a vital question: When all certainties are snatched away, what remains of lives, of memory, of faith?
Patricia Grace King grew up in North Carolina and has since lived in Spain, Guatemala, and the United Kingdom, where she resides. Her short fiction has won the Miami University Novella Prize, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, and the Florida Review’s Leiby Prize. Other stories have been published by Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Narrative, and Nimrod. A former Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, she has received additional support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the British Library.
Mark Schimmoeller is author of Slowspoke: A Unicyclist’s Guide to America and Bound to the Moon. He and his family live on an off-the-grid Kentucky homestead.
Please register at https://www.pspl.org/event/king. For more information, contact Megan Pickett at (502) 352-2665 x108 or [email protected].
Taking place during the decades-long civil conflict, Those Who Vanish follows the stories of Guatemalan citizens and North American expats set on a collision course by war. Martyrs and missionaries, guerrillas and gringos are thrown together amid political violence. A peace worker shelters a rebel fighter. An exile returns to confront the legacy of her parents’ murders. The Virgin Mary begins appearing above an elderly woman’s stove. Set in a world of daily disappearances, the collection addresses a vital question: When all certainties are snatched away, what remains of lives, of memory, of faith?
Patricia Grace King grew up in North Carolina and has since lived in Spain, Guatemala, and the United Kingdom, where she resides. Her short fiction has won the Miami University Novella Prize, the Arts & Letters Fiction Prize, and the Florida Review’s Leiby Prize. Other stories have been published by Ploughshares, The Gettysburg Review, Narrative, and Nimrod. A former Carol Houck Smith Fellow at the University of Wisconsin, she has received additional support from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the British Library.
Mark Schimmoeller is author of Slowspoke: A Unicyclist’s Guide to America and Bound to the Moon. He and his family live on an off-the-grid Kentucky homestead.
Please register at https://www.pspl.org/event/king. For more information, contact Megan Pickett at (502) 352-2665 x108 or [email protected].
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