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Ten Evenings

Carmen Maria Machado

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Ten Evenings is presented by Bank of America

“Many people live and die without ever confronting themselves in the darkness.”

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO, HER BODY AND OTHER PARTIES

Carmen Maria Machado’s genre-bending short-story collection Her Body and Other Parties was one of the hottest books of 2017. In her revolutionary memoir, In the Dream House, Machado writes about her personal experience of queer domestic violence, and gives readers essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships.

Unpacking the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, In the Dream House is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.

Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award and the Kirkus Prize, among many others. In 2018, the New York Times listed Her Body and Other Parties as a member of “The New Vanguard,” one of “15 remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write fiction in the 21st century.” She is the Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.

Her Body and Other Parties established Machado as one of the most innovative young voices in American letters. In the Dream House announces that she is also one of the bravest.”

KEVIN BROCKMEIER

Book Signing

Join us in the Music Hall Foyer after the lecture to get your book signed or personalized. Books will be available for sale at the event from White Whale Bookstore.

Sponsored by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
With additional support from Chatham University

In The Dream House book cover

WHEN

Monday, January 20, 2020 at 7:30 p.m.

TICKETS

$15-35
$10 tickets are available for students by using the promo code LS20STUDENT.
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WHERE

Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, 15213

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