Readings

Annie Bloom's welcomes back Dana Spiotta for a livestream reading from her new novel, Wayward. Dana will be in conversation with Christine Schutt, author of Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYod-6rrTouGtVLK_OnwY6uC09ttA7xmjeA About Wayward: A moving, funny, engrossing novel about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning, from the renowned author of Stone Arabia and Eat the Document. On the heels of the election of 2016, Samantha Raymond's life begins to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into the Mids--that hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state…