

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Book Event: Mass Mothering by Sarah Bruni
- **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 03 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Tue, 03 Feb, 2026 at 08:30 pm
- **Event Description**: A haunting, indelible novel of collective grief, resistance, and the radical, life-affirming virtue of testimonyAbout this EventJoin us for an event to celebrate the release of Mass Mothering, a novel by Sarah Bruni. For this event, Sarah will be joined in conversation by Michael Zapata.A haunting, indelible novel of collective grief, resistance, and the radical, life-affirming virtue of testimonyA. is an amateur translator, living alone in an unforgiving, late-capitalist metropolis. Adrift and burdened by debt following a medical trauma, she makes rent caring for a young boy who is not and could never be her own. Her nights are spent on the dance floor, chasing spontaneous connection. There, she encounters N., who shares her numbed state and sometimes her bed.Among N.’s meager possessions, A. comes across a slim book about an unnamed foreign town of disappearing boys. The book, Field Notes, documents the stories of a community of mothers who assemble to mourn their missing sons together. A. is transfixed by this collective chorus of primal grief, the mothers’ preternatural strength, and their intuitive care for one another. When a near-assault stuns A. out of her inertia, she takes off for the city where Field Notes was written in search of its author and the end of the story. But A.’s digging leads her instead to the traces of a murdered poet, a mysterious woman whose legacy will intersect unexpectedly and pivotally with A.’s own life.Poignant and profoundly humane, Mass Mothering is told through layered voices, written fragments, and recorded testimonies. It is a luminous story of the mutuality of grief, the aftershocks of violence in a globalized era, and the world-bending force of a mother’s love.Sarah Bruni is a graduate of the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis and holds a master’s in Latin American Studies from Tulane University. She has taught English and writing classes in New York and St. Louis, and she has volunteered as a writer-in-schools in San Francisco and Montevideo, Uruguay. She is also the author of the novel The Night Gwen Stacy Died. Her fiction has appeared in Boston Review, and her translations have appeared in the Buenos Aires Review. She lives in Chicago with her family.Michael Zapata is the author of the novel The Lost Book of Adana Moreau, winner of the 2020 Chicago Review of Books Award for Fiction and a Best Book of the Year for NPR, the A.V. Club, Los Angeles Public Library, and BookPage, among others. He is a recipient of a Meier Foundation Artist Achievement Award and the DAG Prize for Literature. He is on the faculty of StoryStudio Chicago and the MFA faculty of Northwestern University. As a public-school educator, he taught literature and writing in high schools servicing drop out students. He currently lives in Chicago with his family.Accessibility: This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email events@womenandchildrenfirst.com by no later than 14 days before the event. For other access needs please email .
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Chicago
- **state**: IL
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Women & Children First
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- **full address**: Women &amp; Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Tue, 03 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
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  - **A:** Women &amp; Children First, 5233 North Clark Street, Chicago, United States
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- **Q**: What type of event is this?
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