Part of Litquake’s Words Around the WorldSponsored by the Government of Ireland: Emigrant Support Programme, Culture Ireland, and Center for the Art of Translation/Two Lines PressCo-presented with Irish Culture Bay AreaJoin old friends
Roddy Doyle and
Dave Eggers as they discuss Doyle’s newest novel, a powerful, moving mother-daughter story filled with struggle and redemption by the Booker Prize winner. A follow up to 1997’s standout
The Woman Who Walked into Doors, Doyle’s latest,
The Women Behind the Door, finds Paula Spencer—mother, grandmother, widow, addict, survivor at sixty-six—finally starting to live her life. That is until her eldest, Nicola, turns up on her doorstep one day. Nicola is everything Paula wasn’t—independent, affluent, a loving wife and mother, a “success”—but now she is suddenly determined to leave it all behind. As Nicola gradually confides in Paula the secret that unleashed this moment of crisis, mother and daughter must untangle past memory, trauma, and revelations to confront what they mean to each other—and who they want to be. Doors at 6:30PM.
$17 adv (book bundle avail.) / $20 doorBook sales for this event coordinated by Inkspell Books.
