Join us for an evening of poetry and flash fiction with Meg Pokrass and Jeff Friedman.

In First Law of Holes, award-winning author Meg Pokrass delivers a stunning selection of stories from the past fourteen years of her flash fiction career, tackling themes of belonging, obsession, messy love, and loneliness with her trademark, unconventional storytelling. A sixteen-year-old transplanted Pennsylvanian navigates sunburn and heartbreak in equal measure while falling in love with a very tan ghost. A girl with drunk scribbles on her shoes searches for fragments of an old flame inside the boy at the mall food court. And a female circus contortionist, the daughter of a failed clown, comes to terms with the first law of romantic relationships: Once in a hole, stop digging.

Jeff Friedman's Broken Signals is a wildly imaginative collection of dazzling fabulist micro tales that reveals a world of inexplicable mysteries in which we struggle to love each other and ourselves. A girl coughs out salmon fillets for the family dinner; a man can't remember his father's face; a man's lover believes he's Paul Newman…a female mime pantomimes sex with her lover, but never touches him; a flotilla of clouds sails toward the horizon, each with a dog tail ticking behind it. A husband opens the doors through which his wife sleepwalks and a white owl sews together the dreams of two lovers… Broken Signals is deeply serious and knock-out funny!

This event, co-hosted by the Yankee Bookshop, is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Registration is appreciated but not required. Please email Programs@NormanWilliams.org for more information.

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