Lynchburg's Literary Lounge
Published authors read from their work in a relaxed atmosphere.
7:30pm. Free
Laura Marello.
Laura Marello is the author of six novels, two novellas, a collection of stories, a memoir, a collection of poems and a screenplay. She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Grant, a Fine Arts Work Center Provincetown Fellowship and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University. She has been awarded artist residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Millay, Montalvo and Djerassi. Her fiction has been published by Gordon Lish in Q22 and James Laughlin in New Directions $53. It has also appeared in The Mississippi Review, The Chicago Review, Newsday, and other magazines, and anthologies. Laura Marello grew up in Los Angeles and New York. She has lived most of her adult life in northern California. Laura will read from her newly released book: just released book, Claiming Kin.
About Claiming Kin, a first novel by Laura Marello:
Andrea has an unusual sense of smell. She grows up to be a pheromone researcher for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a perfume maker in Paris. But one idea haunts her: who is her real father? Is it the man her family says is her father, or is it his live-in companion? Andrea follows them to San Remo, where she tests her hypothesis, with startling results that disrupt her family on both sides of the Atlantic. Claiming Kin is about two families in Italy and America and their conflicts over kinship. The novel spans the 1950s through the 1980s and is set in San Remo, Paris, Santa Cruz California and a fictional Pottersville North Carolina.
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