Award-winning author Alice McDermott reads from her new work After ThisNovember 30th, Thursday, 7pm
 National Book Award winner Alice McDermott, author of six critically acclaimed novels, reads from her new work, After This, the story of the Keane family of Long Island who get swept up in the wake of the Vietnam War. When Mary and John Keane marry shortly after the Second World War, she is on the verge of spinsterhood, and he is a veteran haunted by the death of a young private in his platoon. Jacob, their first-born, is given the dead soldier's name, an omen that will haunt the family when Jacob is killed inVietnam. A writer who has been compared to Jane Austen for her grace and powerful observation, she has represented and revealed an Irish America in works that fellow-novelist Anna Quindlen has described as mirroring “the essential truths of existence so sure-handedly that they are neither comedies nor tragedies, but merely true".
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