Author and yoga teacher, Sara DiVello, who is hosting South End Writes for FOSEL, has generously arranged to present our booked authors remotely. She will bring you our popular series via Zoom.
After a hiatus of 14 years, novelist Laura Zigman just came out with her latest work of fiction, Separation Anxiety, which The Boston Globe hailed as a “triumphant return.” Its main character, Judy, a children’s book author going through a rough stretch in her life, finds her 13-year-old son’s baby sling while sorting through stuff in the basement. She puts her dog, Charlotte, inside, and finds it oddly comforting. She decides to keep carrying the dog around for a while.
The New York Times, in a review titled Don’t Mind Me While I Wear My Dog, says Zigman’s latest work of semi-autobiographical fiction “has brought her ur-self firmly into middle age.” The Boston Globe reviewer reports the book captures “an astonishing level of empathy.” “By the time you get into your 40s and beyond, you’re dealing with loss,” Zigman is quoted as saying. “You have a lot of empathy for the people who are helping you through it, and for the people you know who are going through it themselves.”
Laura Zigman grew up in Newton, MA, and, yes, owns a Sheltie. After working for ten years as a publicist for other authors, she wrote the semi-autobiographical Animal Husbandry in 1998. It became a New York Times bestseller and was turned into a movie starring Ashley Judd and Hugh Jackman, Someone Like You. She has penned three other, also semi-autobiographical novels: Dating Big Bird (2000); Her (2002); and Piece of Work (2006).
Zigman has been a contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Huffington Post. She also produced a popular online series of animated videos, Annoying Conversations, and was the recipient of a Yaddo residency.
NOTE: The Friends of the South End Library will present the reading as a REMOTE event. To access the meeting, please read the instructions below and download Zoom in advance.
The Zoom event is a FREE videoconferencing program. If you have never used Zoom before, it may take about three minutes to install. It also may require you to restart your computer after the installation.
NOTE about purchasing copies of Separation Anxiety: Amazon is NOT shipping books during the pandemic as they are not considered "necessities" (how wrong they are!) but our local Indie Bookstore, Trident Booksellers and Cafe, on Newbury Street, will provide you with copies of Separation Anxiety if you order on-line. They have FREE SHIPPING. If you want to order something from their cafe they can include a book along with your food order. Please support our beloved small businesses. Please contact them via this link.
NOTE from Anne Smart:
The BPL owns 5 copies of the book and there are 33 titles on request. I will request a few more copies. Thanks!! Anne
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