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Saturday, October 8 • 3:15pm - 4:15pm
OTRS - Each Unhappy Family: Helen Klein Ross and Elizabeth Percer

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Off the Richter Scale Series:

Helen Klein Ross (What Was Mine) and Elizabeth Percer (All Stories Are Love Stories) discuss their recent novels, and the overlapping themes of love, loss, and resilience. Moderated by Anne Germanacos. FREE

Claire Messud: "Helen Klein Ross takes a shocking premise and uses it to illluminate our human condition." Eden Lepucki describes All Stories as "a love letter to San Francisco and a compassionate and thoughtful look into its characters’ lives and secret hearts."

Complimentary coffee provided by Nomadic Ground. 
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Anne Germanacos

Anne Germanacos is the author of the short-story collection In the Time of the Girls (BOA Editions, 2010) and Tribute (Rescue Press, 2014). Together with her husband, Nick Germanacos, she ran the Ithaka Cultural Studies Program on the islands of Kalymnos and Crete. She runs the... Read More →
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Elizabeth Percer

Elizabeth Percer is the author of All Stories Are Love Stories (HarperCollins, 2016), a novel that follows three survivors in the aftermath of two devastating earthquakes hitting modern day San Francisco. Named a Best Book of 2016 by Amazon, All Stories Are Love Stories is "a moving... Read More →
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Helen Klein Ross

Helen Klein Ross is a poet and novelist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Iowa Review where it won The Iowa Review 2014 award in poetry. She is author of What Was Mine (Simon & Schuster/Gallery, 2016) and editor of Traveler's Vade Mecum, an... Read More →

Saturday October 8, 2016 3:15pm - 4:15pm PDT
Mechanics' Institute Library
  Type: Book Sales & Signing   Type: Panel Discussion   Venue: Free Event   Venue: Wheelchair Accessible

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