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Vroman’s: Merrill Joan Gerber presents Revelation at the Food Bank

December 12, 2023 @ 7:00 pm

In-Person Event Free
Merrill Joan Gerber

These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer’s life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the poisons of religion and politics. In the titular essay (included in Best American Essays 2023) a food bank, assuaging the pandemic’s terrors with gifts of food and prayers, becomes a portal for intimate confidences entrusted to us by a voice of unspoiled authenticity and perennial vigor.

Details

Date:
December 12, 2023
Time:
7:00 pm
Cost:
Free
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Website:
https://www.vromansbookstore.com/Merrill-Joan-Gerber-presents-Revelation-at-the-Food-Bank

Venue

Vroman’s Bookstore
695 E. Colorado Blvd.
Pasadena, CA 91101 United States
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Phone
626.449.5320
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