Feb 16 2023
February Book Club: Laird Hunt - Zorrie

February Book Club: Laird Hunt - Zorrie

Presented by Titcomb's Bookshop at Titcomb's Bookshop

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Join us for our February Book Club as we welcome author Laird Hunt to talk to us about his most recent novel Zorrie on Thursday February 16th at 7pm on Zoom.

This is a free, virtual event! You can order your copy of the book from our website.

ABOUT THE BOOK

As a girl, Zorrie Underwood's modest and hardscrabble home county was the only constant in her young life. After losing both her parents, Zorrie moved in with her aunt, whose own death orphaned Zorrie all over again, casting her off into the perilous realities and sublime landscapes of rural, Depression-era Indiana. Drifting west, Zorrie survived on odd jobs, sleeping in barns and under the stars, before finding a position at a radium processing plant. At the end of each day, the girls at her factory glowed from the radioactive material.

But when Indiana calls Zorrie home, she finally finds the love and community that have eluded her in and around the small town of Hillisburg. And yet, even as she tries to build a new life, Zorrie discovers that her trials have only begun.

Spanning an entire lifetime, a life convulsed and transformed by the events of the 20th century, Laird Hunt’s extraordinary novel Zorrie offers a profound and intimate portrait of the dreams that propel one tenacious woman onward and the losses that she cannot outrun. Set against a harsh, gorgeous, quintessentially American landscape, this is a deeply empathetic and poetic novel that belongs on a shelf with the classics of Willa Cather, Marilynne Robinson, and Elizabeth Strout.

“A deceptively simple book about the curious forces that shape a life…Hunt’s novel reads like poetry, evoking writers like Paul Harding and Marilynne Robinson, and radiates the heat of a beating heart.” —Alissa Wilkinson, Vox

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Laird Hunt is the author of eight novels, a collection of stories, and two book-length translations from the French. His most recent novel, Zorrie, was a Finalist for the National Book Award in Fiction. He has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and won the Anisfield-Wolf Award for Fiction, the Grand Prix de Littérature Américaine, and Italy’s Bridge prize. His reviews and essays have been published in the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, and many others. He teaches in the Literary Arts program at Brown University and lives in Providence.

Event address:

on Zoom

Admission Info

Phone: (508) 888-2331

Email: info@titcombsbookshop.com

Dates & Times

2023/02/16 - 2023/02/16

Location Info

Titcomb's Bookshop

432 Route 6A., East Sandwich, MA 02537