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Award-Winning Author to Speak Tuesday at Kent Library

Andre Dubus III will talk at 7 p.m. Tuesday at an event sponsored by the Suffield Public Library Foundation.

The Suffield Public Library Foundation is proud to host a talk at Kent Memorial Library with award-winning author Andre Dubus III on Tuesday, April 30 at 7 p.m., with a reception commencing at 6:30. 

Dubus wrote the National Book Award nominee The House of Sand and Fog, which was made into an Oscar-nominated film, and he is also the author of the novels The Garden of Last Days and Bluesman, as well as the short story collection The Cage Keeper and other Stories.  He follows in the path of his father, renowned short story author Andre Dubus, who figures prominently in Andre Dubus III’s most recent work, Townie, published in 2011 to widespread acclaim.    

Townie
is a memoir that explores Dubus’s life growing up with his three siblings in the home of their “exhausted working mother in a depressed Massachusetts mill town saturated with drugs and everyday violence.”  This intense narrative has been described as “a riveting, visceral, profound meditation on physical violence and the failures and triumphs of love.”

Dubus has received similar appreciation as a speaker, earning respect as an eloquent voice on topics including the challenges of writing and creativity, the impact of violence and poverty, the craft of the memoir, and redemption through storytelling.

Tickets for the event are $15 and are available at Kent Memorial Library in Suffield.  This event will also serve as a public kickoff for an ongoing initiative to bring a handicapped accessible entrance to Kent Memorial Library so that all community members can access the town public library at all times, including the handicapped, elderly, and those with young children. 


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