Featured Author Conversation: Jennifer Haigh and Emma Copley Eisenberg

Room: South Wing Reading Room, 2nd floor | Moderator: Christa Parravani | 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM

After the presentation, attendees are welcome to purchase a book and/or get their book signed by the author in the Research & Information room on the 2nd floor of the library.

Pre-registation is extremely helpful for planning purposes, but is not required. Pre-registered attendees will get priority seating in the event of limited seating. Walk-ins are welcome if capacity allows.

Description

Rabbit Moon A tense, propulsive drama set in Shanghai, about a fractured American family, secret lives, and the unbreakable bond between two sisters, from the New York Times bestselling author of Mercy Street

Housemates Two young housemates embark on a road trip to discover themselves in this “exceptional, keenly observed meditation on art and love” (People) in a fractured America, by the award-winning author of The Third Rainbow Girl

Biography

Jennifer Haigh's first novel, MRS. KIMBLE, won the PEN Hemingway Award for debut fiction. Her latest, MERCY STREET, won the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Her work has been recognized by the Guggenheim Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has been published in eighteen languages. Born and raised in western Pennsylvania, she now lives in Boston.

Emma Copley Eisenberg is the author of the novel Housemates, which was a national bestseller and named a best book of the year by The Boston Globe, People, NBC, Them.Us, Autostraddle, and Kirkus Reviews, Electric Literature, and others. Her narrative nonfiction book, The Third Rainbow Girl, was a New York Times Notable Book and Editor’s Choice. She lives in Philadelphia.