Author Reading

Alicia J. Rouverol
Dry River

Saturday, May 17
19:00

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Sara Greystone’s career as a public defender is spiraling after a disastrous court case, and now her husband’s IT career is also in jeopardy. A move to California is supposed to get them both back on their feet, but the state is in the midst of a crippling economic downturn—and then Sara’s mother falls seriously ill. In the face of migration, illness, unemployment, and the tantalising possibility of infidelity, Sara has to work out who she is and what she really wants. Spanning 1997 to 2012, Dry River echoes Wallace Stegner’s classic Angle of Repose, moving across place and time to chart the slow collapse of a marriage alongside a declining US economy.

"A touching, powerful and elegantly written novel about contemporary marriage and the complex forces, both private and public, that bind people together and pull them apart.”
- Ian McGuire, The Abstainer and The North Water, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

"A stunning, intricate novel of one woman’s transformation as she juggles family and career during the turmoil of the global financial crisis. With elegant prose, a deeply felt sense of place, and an emotional intelligence reminiscent of Anne Lamott and Elizabeth Strout, Rouverol affirms how chance connections between strangers, even fleeting ones, can give us the courage to remake ourselves.”
- Barbara Barrow, The Quelling and An Unclean Place

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Alicia J. Rouverol is co-author of “I Was Content and Not Content”: The Story of Linda Lord and the Closing of Penobscot Poultry, which was called “compassionate and sorely needed” by The New York Times and nominated for the Oral History Association Book Award. She is a recipient of the Elizabeth George Foundation writing grant and a Society of Authors' Foundation grant for works-in-progress. She lives with her family in Manchester, where she is Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Salford. Dry River is her first novel.

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Rouverol will be joined by Andy Broadey, who designed the cover for her book. Broadey will discuss the cover and its links both to Rouverol's novel and the original work that inspired it, Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner. Broadey is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art, History and Theory at University of Central Lancashire. He has recently exhibited at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool and The Portico Library in Manchester.

Broadey’s photo-exhibit, "Angle of Repose," will be on display the evening of Rouverol’s reading.

This event is free. No registration necessary.

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