Coming up on 8/23 – join us for this two author event! Kay Cosgrove will read her from poetry book ๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜บ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ? and Ashley Wurzbacher reads from her new novel ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข ๐˜๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜Ž๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ญ.

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๐€๐›๐จ๐ฎ๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ฌ
๐˜ˆ๐˜ฏ๐˜บ๐˜ฃ๐˜ฐ๐˜ฅ๐˜บ ๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ฎ๐˜ฆ? – 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 weโ€™ve 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 lifeโ€™s sweetness and shadows. Here, the ordinary is unfathomable and the ineffable is ordinary.

๐˜๐˜ฐ๐˜ธ ๐˜ต๐˜ฐ ๐˜Š๐˜ข๐˜ณ๐˜ฆ ๐˜ง๐˜ฐ๐˜ณ ๐˜ข ๐˜๐˜ถ๐˜ฎ๐˜ข๐˜ฏ ๐˜Ž๐˜ช๐˜ณ๐˜ญ – 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 hasnโ€™t forgiven Jada for a terrible betrayal, she goes to her for support, only to discover the cracks in the faรงade of her sisterโ€™s 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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