Polly Merritt Ingraham, a Hopkinton local, shares her new memoir, Unconverted: Memoir of a Marriage, at Gibson's Bookstore! She is joined in-conversation by her friend, fellow author Ian M. Rogers.
As soon as Polly and Rob meet, there is electricity between them, despite the fact that Rob is a devout Divinity student and Polly does not practice a religion. When they fall in love, she begins to wonder if their union can survive their theological differences. Over time, they build a multilayered life of family and community, and Polly manages to create a comfortable space as a clergy wife.
In lyrical prose that is reflective, candid, and warm, this is the story of how an extroverted agnostic remained true to herself through three decades of marriage, three children, and four relocations. As Polly's husband rose through the ranks to become an Episcopal bishop, she stayed steadfast in her love of literature, sports, nature, friends, and her family, while deepening her understanding of herself, her husband, and marriage.
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About the authors:
Polly Ingraham has had a career working primarily in high schools, both as an English teacher and (currently) a school-to-work coordinator. She earned a Masters degree from the Bread Loaf School of English. A non-fiction writer, she has maintained a blog at
https://www.pastorswifeblog.com/ for a ridiculously long time; it has recently migrated to Substack:
https://pollyingraham.substack.com/ In 2018, she completed the year-long Grub Street Memoir Incubator program in Boston. This spring her book about her journey as an unconventional clergy spouse will be published by Rootstock. She and her husband, Bishop Rob Hirschfeld, live in Hopkinton, NH. They have three young adult children who live in different cities.
Ian M. Rogers grew up in New Hampshire before studying literature at Bennington College in Vermont and creative writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He taught English in Japan for several years, most recently at Kanagawa University in Yokohama, and currently teaches in the online MFA program at Western Connecticut State University. He is the author of MFA Thesis Novel (2022) and the forthcoming Carcrash Parker and the Haven of Larpers (July 2025), both published by Vine Leaves Press.
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