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SUMMARY:Author Jennifer Lunden in conversation with Author Jane Brox on Lunden's New Book\, American Breakdown
DESCRIPTION:* At the request of the presenter\, masks are recommended at 
 this event and will be provided at the door.*\n\nCelebrate the release of 
 American Breakdown: Our Ailing Nation\, My Body’s Revolt\, and the 
 Nineteenth-Century Woman Who Brought Me Back to Life with author Jennifer 
 Lunden\, in conversation with Jane Brox. Praised by the Washington Post as 
 “[a] rigorous cultural critique…compelling\, detailed\, and 
 absorbing\,” this wide-ranging\, genre-crossing literary mystery 
 interweaves Lunden’s quest to understand the source of her own condition 
 with her telling of the story of the chronically ill 19th-century diarist 
 Alice James—ultimately uncovering the many hidden health hazards of life 
 in America.\n\nCopies of the book will be available for sale (cash/check 
 only) and signing by the author\, courtesy of Gulf of Maine 
 Books.\n\nJennifer Lunden is an author\, poet\, Licensed Clinical Social 
 Worker (LCSW)\, and former therapist. She is the recipient of the 2019 
 Maine Arts Fellowship for literary arts and the 2016 Bread Loaf-Rona Jaffe 
 Foundation Scholarship in Nonfiction. Lunden\, a dual citizen\, has also 
 been awarded three grants from the Canada Council for the Arts\, one from 
 the Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund\, and fellowships from 
 Yaddo\, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts\, Hedgebrook\, Monson 
 Arts\, Hewnoaks\, and the Dora Maar House in the south of France.\n\n \n\n 
 \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\nJane Brox’s fifth book\, Silence\, was selected as an 
 Editors’ Choice by The New York Times Book Review and received the Maine 
 Literary Award for Nonfiction.  Her previous book\, Brilliant: The 
 Evolution of Artificial Light\, was named one of the top ten nonfiction 
 books of 2010 by Time magazine.  She is also the author of Clearing Land: 
 Legacies of the American Farm\; Five Thousand Days Like This One\, which 
 was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in nonfiction\; 
 and Here and Nowhere Else\, which won the L.L. Winship/PEN New England 
 Award. Brox has received the New England Book Award for nonfiction\, and 
 her essays have appeared in many journals and anthologies including Best 
 American Essays\, The Norton Book of Nature Writing\, The Georgia Review 
 and NewYorker.com.  She has been awarded grants from the John Simon 
 Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the 
 Massachusetts Cultural Council\, and the Maine Arts Commission. She lives 
 in Brunswick\, Maine. \n\n
LOCATION:Morrell Meeting Room
ORGANIZER;CN="Kelly McElligott":MAILTO:kmcelligott@curtislibrary.com
CATEGORIES:Author Event / Speaker
CONTACT;CN="Kelly McElligott":MAILTO:kmcelligott@curtislibrary.com
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