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Annie DeWitt
reads from
White Nights in Split Town City:
A Novel
This event includes a book signing
DateAug
9
Tuesday
August 9, 2016 7:00 PM ET |
LocationHarvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 |
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This event is free; no tickets are required.
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Harvard Book Store and GrubStreet welcome co-founding editor of the literary journal Gigantic ANNIE DEWITT for a reading from her debut novel, White Nights in Split Town City.
About White Nights in Split Town City
When Mother turned up the radio real loud and sang “I Heard It Through the Grapevine,” I wondered what the grapevine was and what it was they had heard through it.
It is the summer of 1990 on the last unpaved road in a rural American town. Jean is approaching thirteen and the twenty-first century is encroaching from all sides. Desert Storm flashes across the television screen, Microsoft has come out with a new program called Windows, and the horses in the pastures out back are dropping dead from an unidentified pathogen. Family life at The Bottom Feeder—the only home Jean has ever known—is slowing disintegrating. Jean’s mother leaves, and in her absence, Jean is torn between the adult world and surreal fantasies of escape. She builds a fort with an abandoned boy, Fender Steelhead, to survey the rumors of their town. But as the kids begin to uncover their neighbors’ secrets and desires, Jean discovers her own propensity for transgression.
Both coming of age story and cautionary tale, this lyrical debut delves into the beauties and dangers of what it means to bear witness, the psychology of isolation, and our universal need to belong.
Praise
“White Nights in Split Town City is a ferocious tumble of a book, told from the wild edge of the 90s. Follow the sharp wonder of Jean’s voice through the electrifying night of this novel and you will emerge breathless, exhilarated, changed. Annie DeWitt is a daring and spectacular new talent.” —Laura van den Berg
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