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Please join us today at 4pm PST as Kelli Jo Ford & Brandon Hobson discuss managing multiple points of view in works of fiction that span generations & what draws these two Cherokee writers to this type of narrative. ASL provided.
Annie Bloom's welcomes Kelly Williams Brown, author of Adulting, for a livestream reading from her new book, Easy Crafts for the Insane: A Mostly Funny Memoir of Mental Illness and Making Things. She will be joined by Amy Dresner, author of the memoir My Fair Junkie. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAqf-ysrzwvHtYrpZxKpm8HJj5kawCR1p-T About Easy Crafts for the Insane: From the New York Times bestselling author of Adulting comes a story about how to make something when you’re capable of nothing. Kelly Williams Brown had 700 Bad Days. Her marriage collapsed, she broke three limbs in separate and unrelated incidents, her father was diagnosed with cancer, and she fell into a deep depression that ended in what could delicately be referred to as a "rest cure" at an inpatient facility.…