BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//ChamberMaster//Event Calendar 2.0//EN METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P3D REFRESH-INTERVAL:P3D CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20250726T190000Z DTEND:20250726T200000Z X-MICROSOFT-CDO-ALLDAYEVENT:FALSE SUMMARY:Brewster Ladies' Library Virtual Speaker Series: Discerning the Truth with Marie Lu DESCRIPTION:"Salt air and the limits of memory animate this heartrending debut. Readers will be captivated." Publishers Weekly\n\nPlease join us for a short reading from The Innermost House by Wellfleet native Cynthia Blakeley and a discussion on her childhood on the Outer Cape\, family secrets\, ghosts\, and the challenges of crafting or co-crafting\, as is so often the case when retelling the past a memoir out of scraps of memory. Audience Q&A\, book sales\, and signing to follow.\n\nBrewster Book Store will be present for book sales. Learn more about them here: brewsterbookstore.com\n\nAbout the Author\n\nCynthia Blakeley was born and raised in Wellfleet\, MA. A first-generation college student\, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College in Hartford\, CT\, and taught for a year in France on a Fulbright before earning a PhD at Emory University. She has worked as a freelance editor and writer for twenty-five years and teaches courses on memoir\, interdisciplinary research\, and theories of dream interpretation at Emory. Her creative nonfiction essays have appeared in the Cape Cod Voice\, Dreamers Magazine\, and HerStry\, and she has been interviewed on family storytelling by Wisconsin Public Radio and the Wall Street Journal. The Innermost House: A Memoir (UMass Press\, 2024) is her first book. She and her husband\, who have a daughter\, live in Atlanta\, GA\, where they write\, teach\, and garden. For more information\, visit cynthiablakeley.com. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
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"\;Salt air and the limits of memory animate this heartrending debut. Readers will be captivated."\; &mdash\;Publishers Weekly

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Please join us for a short reading from The Innermost House by Wellfleet native Cynthia Blakeley and a discussion on her childhood on the Outer Cape\, family secrets\, ghosts\, and the challenges of crafting&mdash\;or co-crafting\, as is so often the case when retelling the past&mdash\;a memoir out of scraps of memory. Audience Q&\;A\, book sales\, and signing to follow.

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Brewster Book Store will be present for book sales. Learn more about them here: brewsterbookstore.com

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About the Author

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Cynthia Blakeley was born and raised in Wellfleet\, MA. A first-generation college student\, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Trinity College in Hartford\, CT\, and taught for a year in France on a Fulbright before earning a PhD at Emory University. She has worked as a freelance editor and writer for twenty-five years and teaches courses on memoir\, interdisciplinary research\, and theories of dream interpretation at Emory. Her creative nonfiction essays have appeared in the Cape Cod Voice\, Dreamers Magazine\, and HerStry\, and she has been interviewed on family storytelling by Wisconsin Public Radio and the Wall Street Journal. The Innermost House: A Memoir (UMass Press\, 2024) is her first book. She and her husband\, who have a daughter\, live in Atlanta\, GA\, where they write\, teach\, and garden. For more information\, visit cynthiablakeley.com.

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\n LOCATION:Auditorium Brewster Ladies' Library 1822 Main Street\, Brewster\, MA\, 02631 UID:e.3353.8225 SEQUENCE:3 DTSTAMP:20260407T030816Z URL:https://members.brewster-capecod.com/events/details/brewster-ladies-library-virtual-speaker-series-discerning-the-truth-with-marie-lu-8225 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR