Fireside Chat with Daisy Rockwell
Cambridge Common House, Cambridge, MA
Admission: Free
Join author Daisy Rockwell in conversation with professor and scholar Jared Green as they discuss her new novel ALICE SEES GHOSTS! Description of ALICE SEES GHOSTS: Alice Bloodshaw’s grandmother lies dying in their crumbling ancestral home. Family relationships are fraught, and worsened by the mercurial behavior of Alice’s mother. Then Alice, eccentric and attuned to the supernatural, is haunted by the specter of her grandfather. His cryptic message sends Alice and her Bengali psychiatrist fiancé, practical-minded Ronit, on a journey from New England to India and back again to unearth the long-buried truths that have choked and tormented the family. Bit by bit, Alice untangles the past to confront the legacy of aristocracy, secrecy, and colonialism in a quest to mend family ties and stop living as a ghost herself. Biography of Jared Green: Jared Green received both his A.M. and Ph.D. from Brown University. His scholarly essays and reviews on Modernist literature, visual culture, and early cinema have been published internationally. He is also a fiction writer and experimental literary performer and has published poetry, prose poetry, children's fiction, and screenplays. He is…