MARIANNE WIGGINS
Tuesday, June 12 at 7:30 p.m.

One of the foremost novelists at work today, Marianne Wiggins, a National Book Award finalist for her most recent previous work, Evidence of Things Unseen, makes this welcome return for her remarkable new novel, The Shadow Catcher (Simon & Schuster). "Wiggins takes a magnificently Sebald-like approach to fictionalizing the life of photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 - 1952) along with that of a woman named 'Marianne Wiggins' ... Photographs taken by Curtis and from the Wiggins family album, which she approaches from multiple angles, give the story several layers of immediacy. Curtis emerges as a fascinating, complex figure, one who inhabited any number of American contradictions. Suffused with Marianne's crackling social commentary and deceptively breezy self-discovery, Wiggins's eighth novel is a heartfelt tour-de force." - Publishers Weekly.

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