Author Talk with Lisa C. Taylor: The Shape of What Remains

Titcomb's Bookshop welcomes author Lisa C. Taylor to speak about her novel The Shape of What Remains on Tuesday, May 6th at 5:30 PM at Titcomb's Bookshop.

Books will be for sale at the event, and Taylor will sign them after her presentation. If you cannot attend but would like a signed copy, please order here.

This is a free event. Registration is required and space is limited. Please register on this page or by calling Titcomb's Bookshop at 508-888-2331.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Like all trauma, healing happens on its own timetable, often in surprising ways. Paralyzed by grief ten years after witnessing the violent death of her six- year-old daughter, Teresa Calvano turns to Chaucer, Janis Joplin, and a monthly book group to cope.

What did six-year-old Serena Calvano see that caused her to run in the road on a clear November morning while waiting for the school bus with her mother? Teresa Calvano has spent a decade blaming herself for Serena's violent death and wishing it was her husband, Luke who was with Serena that day, so the guilt didn't fall so heavily on her shoulders. When her husband and friends lose patience with her failure to get back to life, Teresa turns to books, therapy, and Janis Joplin to address her continued unraveling. Is there a cure for grief? In Teresa's world, her research and life as a successful English professor fail to offer the one thing she most wants: another day with her six-year-old daughter.

“We observe Teresa’s growing sense of self as she puts the fractured pieces of herself back together with the gold of her acceptance like the Japanese art of Kintsugi. Life-affirming. Beautiful.” —Geraldine Mills, author of When the Light (New and Selected Poems)

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Lisa C. Taylor is the author of the bestselling new novel The Shape of What Remains, three poetry collections, and two short story collections, most recently Impossibly Small Spaces (2018). Her honors include the Hugo House New Works Fiction Award, Pushcart nominations in fiction and poetry and Best-of-the Net nominations in both categories. Her poetry collaboration with Irish writer Geraldine Mills, The Other Side of Longing, received the Elizabeth Shanley Gerson Honor at University of Connecticut.

Lisa holds an MFA in Creative Writing and is the co-director of the Mesa Verde Writers Conference and Literary Festival. She teaches creative writing online and at writers conferences around the country. www.lisactaylor.com

EVENT ADDRESS

Titcomb's Bookshop

432 Route 6A

East Sandwich, MA 02537

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