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Readings by former PSU/Tin House Writers-in-Residence Joanna Klink, Audrey Petty, D.A. Powell, Christine Schutt, and Amy Stewart. Contact: Leni Zumas
Drink tea and chat with Amy Stewart, the New York Times best-selling author of ten books, including Girl Waits with Gun and the rest of the Kopp Sisters mystery series. This event is open to teens and adults. Attendance is limited to 15, so please follow the event link to reserve your place.
In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart’s clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military discipline – whether they’re ready or not – as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I. In Kopp Sisters on the March (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), the women of Camp Chevy Chase face down the skepticism of the War Department, the double standards of a scornful public, and the very real perils of war. Once again, Stewart has brilliantly brought a little-known moment in history to light with her fearless and funny Kopp Sisters novels.
Rosalie Knecht discusses her new novel Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery with Amy Stewart! Order Vera Kelly Is Not a Mystery Order Who Is Vera Kelly? Order Kopp Sisters on the March * Rosalie Knecht is the author of Who Is Vera Kelly? and Relief Map. She is the translator of César Aira’s The Seamstress and the Wind (New Directions) and a Center for Fiction Emerging Writer Fellow. She resides in New York City. Amy Stewart is the New York Times best-selling author of the Kopp Sisters series, which are based on the true story of one of America’s first female deputy sheriffs and her two rambunctious sisters. The books are in development with Elizabeth Banks’ production company, Brownstone, for a television series. Her popular nonfiction titles include…
Growing up in a New Jersey factory town in the 1980s, Daisy Hernández believed that her aunt had become deathly ill from eating an apple. No one in her family, in either the United States or Colombia, spoke of infectious diseases, and even into her thirties, she only knew that her aunt had died of a rare illness called Chagas. But as Hernández dug deeper, she discovered that Chagas — or the kissing bug disease — is more prevalent in the United States than the Zika virus. Today, more than 300,000 Americans have Chagas. Why do some infectious diseases make headlines and others fall by the wayside? After her aunt’s death, Hernández begins searching for answers about who our nation chooses to take care of…