Child of Earth & Starry Heaven: Author Event with L. Annette Binder (in person)
July 21 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Free
Join us for a moderated conversation with L. Annette Binder, to celebrate the release of her new book, Child of Earth & Starry Heaven, winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award.
When Annette’s mother, Helena, starts to forget things she’s always known, Annette researches ways to keep her mother from losing touch with the world. The book chronicles Helena’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease, looking to mythology, science, literature, and history to find meaning and beauty even as her cognition fails.
James Brown, author of Apology to the Young Addict, calls the book “a hauntingly powerful work of the sort only the very best of writers may hope to achieve in a lifetime,” while Harvard neuroscientist Daniel L. Schacter finds it “an essential book that both moves and informs.”
Child of Earth & Starry Heaven is the story of a daughter coming to terms with her mother’s dementia. Sad and joyous, it is a meditation on what makes us human
L. Annette Binder was born in Germany and grew up in Colorado. Her story collection Rise (Sarabande 2012) received the Mary McCarthy Prize in Short Fiction, and her stories have appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, the PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, One Story, The Southern Review, American Short Fiction, and others. The Vanishing Sky (Bloomsbury 2020), her first novel, was inspired by her family history.
Books will be for sale at this event.
Please register so we can set the community room up with appropriate seating.
