Coming up on 8/23 – join us for this two author event! Kay Cosgrove will read her from poetry book ๐๐ฏ๐บ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ? and Ashley Wurzbacher reads from her new novel ๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ญ.
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๐๐ฏ๐บ๐ฃ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐บ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ? – The poems in Kay Cosgrove’s first collection are driven by curiosity โ about herself, the world, and her place in it. Witty and elegantly restrained, they ask the question: how do we live the lives weโve made for ourselves? Cosgrove roams from barrooms to checkout lines to the enigma of motherhood; she is a teenager responsible for a sack-of-flour-as-a-baby, and then an adult driving a teenage babysitter home. She explores the texture of our connections to strangers, family, ourselves, and illuminates the sublime in the unimportant. The poems in Anybody Home? embrace lifeโs sweetness and shadows. Here, the ordinary is unfathomable and the ineffable is ordinary.
๐๐ฐ๐ธ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ ๐ข ๐๐ถ๐ฎ๐ข๐ฏ ๐๐ช๐ณ๐ญ – Two years after the death of their mother, Jada and Maddy Battle both navigate unplanned pregnancies. Jada, a thirty-one-year-old psychology PhD student living in Pittsburgh, quietly obtains an abortion without telling her husband, but the secret causes turmoil in her already shaky marriage. Back home in rural Pennsylvania, nineteen-year-old Maddy, who spends her time caring for birds at a wildlife rehabilitation center, is paid off by the man who got her pregnant to get an abortion. But an unsettling visit to a crisis pregnancy center adds to her doubts about whether to go through with it.
Although Maddy still hasnโt forgiven Jada for a terrible betrayal, she goes to her for support, only to discover the cracks in the faรงade of her sisterโs seemingly perfect life. As their past resentments boil over, the sisters must navigate the consequences of their choices and determine how best to care for themselves and each other.
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