CHRIS BOHJALIAN / SECRETS OF EDEN
MARCH 23 AT 7PM
A BENEFIT NIGHT FOR BWSS(BATTERED WOMEN’S SHELTER AND SERVICES of Washington County)
CHRIS BOHJALIAN / SECRETS OF EDEN
Short Presentation by BWSS
Author Reading & Signing
Chocolate/Dessert reception
Bear Pond Books will donate 20% of book sales that evening to BWSS
SUGGESTED DONATION IS $5.00
With book after book, Chris Bohjalian continues to garner widespread critical acclaim for his realistic and provocative writing. Over the years, he has brought to life midwives, foster children, animal-rights activists, and the homeless—while illuminating the communities they live in and the complicated choices they face. Set in contemporary New England, Bohjalian’s latest novel, SECRETS OF EDEN shines the light on the issue of domestic violence. Written with Chris’s elegant, page-turning prose, the book builds to the sort of ending that left millions of readers of The Double Bind and Midwives speechless and stunned—and hungry for his next novel.
While many of Bohjalian’s novels are issues oriented, SECRETS OF EDEN is the first to emerge from readers’ responses to one of his previous works. The origins of this narrative came from stories Bohjalian heard from women across the country who had read The Double Bind and wanted to know how he had heard their story—because they had never met. Many identified with the attack on Laurel Estabrook in The Double Bind— it felt like what had happened to them.
Secrets of Eden is both a haunting literary thriller and a deeply evocative testament to the inner complexities that mark all of our lives. Once again, Bohjalian has given us a riveting page-turner in which nothing is precisely what it seems. As one character remarks, “Believe no one. Trust no one. Assume all of our stories are suspect.”
Chris Bohjalian is the author of twelve novels, including the New York Times bestsellers The Double Bind, Skeletons at the Feast, and Midwives.
BEN HEWITT / THE TOWN THAT FOOD SAVED
MARCH 30 AT 7PM
Hewitt’s account of the growing agricultural economy in Hardwick, Vermont looks at the long tradition of agriculture in the area and examines more recent developments in the movement to explore a variety of new possibilities for creating a sustainable local food system. The book is a great example of how a community can work together to build a network of successful businesses that support each other and their neighbors.
BEN HEWITT was born in northwestern Vermont and raised in a two-room cabin; his father was a poet and his mother worked on a nearby dairy farm. He now lives with his wife and two sons on a diversified, 40-acre farm in Vermont, where they produce dairy, beef, pork, lamb, vegetables, and berries. His work has appeared in numerous magazines and newspapers.
UPCOMING EVENTS
APRIL(National Poetry Month)
April 13 Three Vermont Poets: Ossman, Sapphire and Wormser
April 20 Poet Pamela Harrison and Poet Gary Margolis
April 27 Open Poetry
MAY
May 4 Bill McKibben
May 11 Tim Brookes
