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Reading Like a Writer: Cai Emmons Memorial Book Club - July - Livid
Wednesday, July 26 | 6-8 PM Pacific
This is an in-person event.
Wordcrafters Studio
436 Charnelton St. Ste 100
Eugene, OR 97401
Wordcrafters is honored to host a two month book club celebrating Unleashed (2022) and Livid (2022) by the late and great local Eugene author, teacher, and playwright, Cai Emmons (1951-2023). Come talk about the craft behind her novels with her former students, colleagues, friends, and more. Everyone is welcome.
Cai facilitated Reading Like a Writer book talks with us in the past, critiqued first pages, and participated in our conferences. She means so much to so many.
About the Book: Livid
Synopsis: Sybil White Brown returns from Boston to the small West Coast city where she once lived, hoping to heal after a terrible loss. Summoned to jury duty, she is dismayed to be assigned to the jury of a murder trial alongside her ex-husband with whom she had a rancorous divorce. As the trial progresses, she and her ex tiptoe around each other but eventually become disastrously entangled. Meanwhile, Sybil obsesses about the female defendant, whom she believes is innocent. The situation explodes during jury deliberations when Sybil comes face-to-face with her own unexpressed rage.
Facilitated by Leah Velez