12:00 - 1:00 PM
Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers (Scribner/Marysue Rucci Books) introduces, in Frida, an everywoman for the ages. Using dark wit to explore the pains and joys of the deepest ties that bind us, Chan has written a modern literary classic. Chan will be joined in conversation by fellow writer, Deborah Shapiro, writer, her third novel, Consolation, was published in October 2022.
Jessamine Chan’s stories have appeared in Tin House and Epoch. A former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she holds an MFA from Columbia University. She lives in Chicago with her family. The School for Good Mothers is her first novel. i: @jessamine.chan | t: @jessaminechan | w: jessaminechan.com
Deborah Shapiro is the author of the novels Consolation, The Summer Demands, and The Sun in Your Eyes (a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice). Her work has also appeared in the New York Times Book Review, Los Angeles Review of Books, Sight Unseen, Chicago Magazine, Literary Hub, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She lives with her family in Chicago. http://www.deborah-shapiro.com/
This author event is co-sponsored with the Oak Park Public Library
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Jessamine Chan/Photo Credit: Beowulf Sheehan
Deborah Shapiro/Photo Credit: Beth Rooney
