Book Reading by Laura Stevenson
Tuesday, October 13th, 4:00 PM
Rice-Aron Library Reading Room, Marlboro College

Join Laura Stevenson for a reading from her new book, Liar from Vermont. In the book, Peggy Hamilton is the third daughter in a Midwestern academic family that summers in Vermont. But in Peggy’s imagination, she is from Vermont—from the hill farm across the way, with its rhythms of milking, haying, and working horses. The ten interlocking stories of Liar from Vermont follow Peggy’s quest for belonging: to a family, to a time, and to a place. Set in the mid-1950s-’60s, she witnesses the irrevocable change in her beloved state whose mountains are becoming ski areas and whose farms are giving way to villages of second homes. Liar from Vermont is a poignant portrait of a girl who sees the truth she embellishes all too clearly, and who learns that no amount of skill can make her stories of the people she loves turn out the way she wants.

Laura C. Stevenson is the award-winning author of four novels for young adults and one for adults, a book on Elizabethan literature and society, several articles on the golden age of children’s literature, and three essays on deafness. She was trained as an historian at the University of Michigan Honors College and Yale University, and she taught Writing and Humanities at Marlboro College from 1986 to 2013. She lives in her family’s old summer house in Wilmington.

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