AMANDA BOYDEN
Thursday, August 14 at 7:30 p.m.

Amanda Boyden has performed as few other writers (or people on their way to becoming writers) have: as a circus trapeze artist and contortionist. The author of a much-praised first novel, Pretty Little Dirty, Amanda Boyden also performs powerfully and movingly with her newest novel, Babylon Rolling (Pantheon). "Threats of natural disaster bracket this novel of New Orleans, which opens just prior to Hurricane Ivan in September, 2004 and ends with the ominous approach of Katrina the following summer. In the intervening year, certain residents of the Uptown district weather personal tragedies rivaling the impact of killer storms ... As lives and cultures overlap, the author melds an enticing place and a kaleidoscope of distinctive voices into a cautionary tale of ambition, desire, and conflict ... Boyden writes with a style and flair that bear watching." - Library Journal.

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