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<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite=""><font face="arial"><b>WORD of
MOUTH, the monthly reading series @ ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY
</b>invites you to a join us for our featured guest, memoirist <b>ANNA
CYPRA OLIVER</b>. <br><br>
<b>Friday, December 17th at 7pm<br>
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</font><font face="arial" color="#E54C38"><b>Anna Cypra
Oliver</b></font><font face="arial">
</font><font face="arial" color="#222222">is the author of
</font><font face="arial" color="#E54C38"><b>ASSEMBLING MY
FATHER</b></font><font face="arial" color="#222222">,
</font><a href="http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/catalog/titledetail.cfm?titleNumber=688489"><font face="arial">(Houghton
Mifflin, 2004)</a>, the riveting account of her search for the truth
about her father—a failed architect and child of the counterculture—who
ended his life at the age of thirty-five. Obsessed with the need to learn
who he was and why he died, she set out on a journey of discovery,
following the clues he had scattered during his brief lifetime. She has
an MFA in creative writing from the
<a href="http://english.cla.umn.edu/creativewriting/program.html">University
of Minnesota</a>. She received a 2001 fellowship in nonfiction literature
from the <a href="http://www.nyfa.org/">New York Foundation for the
Arts</a> for ASSEMBLING MY FATHER, her first book. For
more,log on to
<a href="http://www.annacypraoliver.com">www.annacypraoliver.com</a>
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</font><font face="arial" size=2>"From a hair-raising childhood on the margins of the 60s counterculture, Anna Cypra Oliver has given us an enthralling memoir and an acute reading of an era that continues to haunt—and inspire—America. I just kept turning the pages, held by a riveting family detective story and by its brave meditation on American idealism. A passionate personal story that is also a rare tour de force of cultural history."<br>
—Patricia Hampl, author of <i>A Romantic Education</i> and <i>I Could Tell You Stories</i><br>
"Oliver's memorial to her elusive dad—and the way researching and writing it changes her own identity—is </font><font face="arial" size=2 color="#E54C38">unforgettable</font><font face="arial" size=2>."<br>
—<i>Publishers Weekly<br>
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</font><font face="arial"><b>As usual, an open mic will start the evening--all genres welcome. Please come a few minutes early to sign up.<br>
</b> <br>
<b>ARTS + LITERATURE LABORATORY 5 Edwards Street, New Haven CT <br>
For more, log on to <a href="http://www.allgallery.org/" eudora="autourl">www.allgallery.org</a> or call (203) 671-5175. </b></font></blockquote>
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