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October 27, 2022 @ 7:00 pm
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In-Person | Mid-Air: An Evening with Victoria Shorr
Books & Books and Miami Book Fair present…
AN EVENING WITH VICTORIA SHORR
discussing
Mid-Air: Two Novellas
(W. W. Norton & Company, $26.95)
Thursday, October 27, 7 PM | LIVE & IN-PERSON at Books & Books, Coral Gables
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Books & Books is excited to present an evening with Victoria Shorr as she discusses his book Mid-Air.
***Please note: This event will take place at the Books & Books in Coral Gables at 265 Aragon Ave. Tickets are FREE and books will be available for purchase at the event. Want your copy early or can’t make it in-person? Order your copy online here.
About the Book:
Fate is explored in the fall and rise of two twentieth-century American families.
Victoria Shorr’s remarkable gift for depicting the inner lives of complex characters shines in two powerful explorations of family, ambition, class, and status.
In “Great Uncle Edward,” a family gathers for dinner. At ninety-three, Great Uncle Edward commands the table in his three-piece suit; Cousin Russell attended both Harvard and Yale but is now reduced to selling off the family books; sisters Betty and Molly are caught between ghosts of a storied past and creeping destitution. These lives are signposts along the downward spiral of an old aristocracy. “Cleveland Auto Wrecking” introduces Sam White, an immigrant from eastern Europe. He cannot read but has a gift for math and an instinct for the value of junk. We follow his clan through the Depression to the postwar boom in the West, where their fortunes soar, creating new tests of loyalty.
Taken together, these two novellas might be the reverse images of the American dream in the twentieth century. They ask to what degree, in the face of such powerful forces as love, death, and social constraints, do any of us have control over our own lives.
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About the Author:
VICTORIA SHORR is a writer and political activist. She is the author of three works of fiction, including the acclaimed historical novel The Plum Trees. She lives in New York and Santa Barbara, California.