Event Listing - Literary Arts |
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Mon Mar 17
San Francisco Public Library presentsLaura Flynn reads from Swallow the OceanTel. 415.355.2808 Website |
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Sunset Branch Library
1305 18th Avenue San Francisco, CA 94122 cross street: Irving district: Sunset (Inner)/UCSF |
Mon Mar 17 (7 p.m.) |
| Description Set in 1970s San Francisco, Swallow the Ocean is a searing, beautifully written memoir of a childhood under siege and three young girls determined to survive.
Charismatic, beautiful Sally Flynn was the center of her daughters' imaginations, particularly Laura's. Without warning, life as they knew it changed as paranoid schizophrenia overtook Sally. Whether it was accusing Laura’s father of trying to win her over to the side of satan, or buying only certain products that were evil-free, glimmers of her mother’s future paranoia grew brighter as Laura’s early years passed. In luminous prose, this memoir paints a most intimate portrait of what might have been a catastrophic childhood. A native of San Francisco, Laura Flynn currently teaches writing at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband. Book signing follows event. |
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