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	Fire Sermon by Jamie Quatro Price $24.00 Hardcover Special Order

Jamie Quatro

presents

Fire Sermon:
A Novel

in conversation with MICHELLE HOOVER

This event includes a book signing

Date

Feb

Friday
February 2, 2018
7:00 PM ET

Location

Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138

Tickets

This event is free; no tickets are required.

Harvard Book Store welcomes acclaimed writer JAMIE QUATRO—author of the story collection I Want to Show You More—for a discussion of her debut novel, Fire Sermon. She will be joined in conversation by MICHELLE HOOVER, Brandeis University writer-in-residence and the author of The Quickening and Bottomland.

About Fire Sermon

Maggie is entirely devoted to her husband Thomas, their two beautiful children, and to God―until what begins as a platonic intellectual and spiritual exchange between writer Maggie and poet James transforms into an erotically-charged bond that challenges Maggie’s sense of loyalty and morality, drawing her deeper into the darkness of desire.

A daring debut novel of obsession, lust, and salvation by the highly lauded author of the story collection, I Want To Show You More, Fire Sermon is a tour de force that charts with bold intimacy and immersive sensuality the life of a married woman in the grip of a magnetic affair.

Praise

“What an absolutely beautiful and moving book. I started reading Fire Sermon and literally, was cranky when I couldn’t get back to it. The writing is nothing less than masterful. I’ve always been a HUGE fan of Jamie Quatro but now she’s taking my fandom to another level.” ―Jacqueline Woodson, author of Brown Girl Dreaming and Another Brooklyn

"I devoured this novel! Quatro is a fearless marvel. An exquisite story of female desire, faith, and commitment and one of the most haunting portraits of a marriage I've ever read." ―Lily King, author of Euphoria

"Fire Sermon moved me deeply, provoked me powerfully, and managed to reach parts of me I hadn't even known were there. This novel stays under the skin. I feel haunted by it, in all the best ways." ―Leslie Jamison, author of The Empathy Exams

Jamie Quatro

Jamie Quatro is the author of I Want To Show You More and Fire Sermon. She is a visiting professor in the Sewanee School of Letters MFA program, a contributing editor at Oxford American, and lives with her husband and children in Lookout Mountain, Georgia.

Michelle Hoover

Michelle Hoover is the Fannie Hurst Writer-in-Residence at Brandeis University and teaches at GrubStreet, where she leads the Novel Incubator program. She is a 2014 NEA Fellow and has been a Writer-in-Residence at Bucknell University, a MacDowell Fellow, and a winner of the PEN/New England Discovery Award. Her debut, The Quickening, was a 2010 Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read.” Her latest novel, Bottomland, is the 2017 All Iowa Reads selection. She is a native of Iowa and lives in Boston.

Walking from the Harvard Square T station: 2 minutes

As you exit the station, reverse your direction and walk east along Mass. Ave. in front of the Cambridge Savings Bank. Cross Dunster St. and proceed along Mass. Ave for three more blocks. You will pass Au Bon Pain, JP Licks, and TD Bank. Harvard Book Store is located at the corner of Mass. Ave. and Plympton St.

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