Virtual Book Talk
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Start date |
01.28.2023 01:00 PM |
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58 Park Ave New York City |
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01.28.2023 02:00 PM |
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NY, US |
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This January, join us for a virtual book talk with Swedish author and psychologist Lydia Sandgren on her new book Collected Works.
With moderator Emily Temple, shell discuss her compelling mystery and poignant bildungsroman about love, power, and artand what leads us to make the pivotal decisions that change the course of our lives.
Martin Bergs wife, Cecilia, disappeared years ago. His memories of their carefree college days seem ever out of reach, and the intellectual curiosities that once made him the object of her desire have given way to midlife uncertainty. The methodical and quiet life hes made for himself and his adult children couldnt be further from the one he dreamed of in his youth, when the manuscripts lying around his apartment were flush with promise and his ailing publishing house was still new.
Perhaps nothing reminds Martin of these failures more than his friend Gustav Becker, a wildly successful painter whos returned to Gothenburg on the eve of his career-defining retrospective. Gustav, meanwhile, is hurting too. His obsession with Cecilias inexplicable disappearance had made his art hagiographic, fixated on her image.
When posters for Gustavs retrospective plaster Cecilias face on major billboards across the city, Martins daughter Rakel learns a haunting fact that points toward her mothers whereabouts. She and her brother chase this clue across time, memory, and Europe to discover why Cecilia abandoned her family, with the imagined hope that the question of what makes a person leave can ever be answered.
Registration is required. Please sign up at the link. This event will take place as a Zoom webinar. Please ask questions in the chat or send them in advance to info@amscan.org.
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