Author Jennifer Haigh presents "Girl in Ice"
When:
Thursday, Feb 10, 2022 7:00p -
8:00p
Thursday, Feb 10, 2022 7:00p -
8:00p
Where:
Wellesley Books
82 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02482
Admission:
$5.00
Categories:
Lectures & Conferences
Event website:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jennifer-haigh-presents-mercy-street-w-laura-zigman-tickets-235530055737
Jennifer Haigh, author of Heat and Light, joins us in-person at Wellesley Books to discuss her new novel about a Boston women's clinic, Mercy Street. Jennifer will be in conversation with Laura Zigman, author of Separatation Anxiety.
Your $5 ticket can be put towards a copy of Mercy Street bought at the event.
Buy tickets online through Eventbrite by clicking the link on this page (fees apply), or by phone at 781-431-1160 (no fees).
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COVID Protocols
• Attendees must wear masks at all times during the event.
• Attendees must present proof of COVID-19 vaccination along with a picture I.D.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
The highly anticipated new novel by acclaimed New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Haigh—“a gifted chronicler of the human condition” (Washington Post Book World)—is a tense, riveting story about the disparate lives that intersect at a woman’s clinic in Boston.
For almost a decade, Claudia has counseled patients at Mercy Street, a clinic in the heart of the city. The work is consuming, the unending dramas of women in crisis. For its patients, Mercy Street offers more than health care; for many, it is a second chance.
But outside the clinic, the reality is different. Anonymous threats are frequent. A small, determined group of anti-abortion demonstrators appears each morning at its door. As the protests intensify, fear creeps into Claudia’s days, a humming anxiety she manages with frequent visits to Timmy, an affable pot dealer in the midst of his own existential crisis. At Timmy’s, she encounters a random assortment of customers, including Anthony, a lost soul who spends most of his life online, chatting with the mysterious Excelsior11—the screenname of Victor Prine, an anti-abortion crusader who has set his sights on Mercy Street and is ready to risk it all to protect the unborn.
Mercy Street is a novel for right now, a story of the polarized American present. Jennifer Haigh, “an expert natural storyteller with a keen sense of her characters’ humanity” (New York Times), has written a groundbreaking novel, a fearless examination of one of the most divisive issues of our time.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Jennifer Haigh is the author of the highly acclaimed novels Mrs. Kimble, Baker Towers, The Condition, Faith, and Heat and Light, and a book of short stories, News from Heaven. Her books have won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Massachusetts Book Award and the PEN New England Award in Fiction, and have been published in eighteen languages. Jennifer Haigh is a Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and won a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Laura Zigman is the author of 5 novels, including Separation Anxiety (which was just optioned by Julianne Nicholson and the production company Wiip for a limited television series); Animal Husbandry (which was made into the movie Someone Like You, starring Hugh Jackman and Ashley Judd), Dating Big Bird, Her, and Piece of Work. She has ghostwritten/collaborated on several works of non-fiction, including Eddie Izzard's New York Times bestseller, Believe Me; been a contributor to the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Huffington Post; produced a popular online series of animated videos called Annoying Conversations; and was the recipient of a Yaddo residency. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
