Calendar Event Detail

Event Name:

Mary Caponegro reads from All Fall Down (Coffee House, 2009)

Address:

25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor
New York, NY

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Event Date/Time:

Starts:	Mon Sep 27 2010 at 6:00 PM
Ends:	Mon Sep 27 2010 at 7:30 PM

Hosting Organization:

Calandra Italian American Inst.

Contact Name:

Rosangela Briscese

Contact Phone Number:

212-642-2094

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Event Cost:

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Event Description:

Mary Caponegro’s experimental fiction blurs the line between fantasy and reality. In these stories of love and healing gone awry, we visit Rome and a marriage therapy retreat, encounter orphans performing abortions in their playroom, witness a mother’s impotence in the face of the 9/11 attacks, meet a man buckling under the pressures of caregiving, and observe couples on the brink of dissolution. All of the characters are heading toward “ninety mile-an-hour psychic crashes euphemistically referred to as epiphanies.” The tragicomedies of failure, resilience, and transformation are rendered with exuberant lyricism, striking characterization, and elaborately detailed settings.