Join us for an evening with Anna Beecher, who will read from her memoir, We All Come Home Alive: A Life in Shocks. A conversation with Jane Alison will follow. This in-person event will be free and open to the public. We recommend arriving early for the best seating.
About the Book: A life is made up of many shocks: The scream of wheels over asphalt as cars collide. The unexpected death of a loved one and the long trek of grief. The brutality of teenage girlhood. The abiding temptation of hunger. The stumbling spinning magic of drunkenness. The falling into love, for once utterly awake. The tearing open of a body and of reality itself that comes with birth and motherhood. Anna Beecher tells the story of her life through the moments which remade her in these wise and luminously beautiful essays.
About the Author: Anna Beecher is the author of the novel Here Comes the Miracle, which was shortlisted for The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and the memoir We All Come Home Alive. Anna’s theater work has been presented by venues including Lincoln Center, Young Vic, Southbank Center, and Barbican London. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.
About the Moderator: Jane Alison is the author of five novels, most recently, Villa E, about the collision of architects Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier, along with The Love-Artist, The Marriage of the Sea, Natives and Exotics, and Nine Island. She has published a memoir, The Sisters Antipodes, about growing up in a family in which parents traded partners; Change Me, translations of Ovid’s stories of sexual transformation; and a book on the craft and theory of writing, Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.
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"Intelligent, poised and emotionally exacting. Beecher’s evocative essays on life’s defining moments unpick how we might be made and remade by life."
—Cal Flyn
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Jane Alison Photo Credit: Anna Kariel