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<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.</font><font face="Trebuchet MS"> <br>
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Ms. Oliver</font><font face="Trebuchet MS"> </font><font face="arial">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. <br>
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<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<br>
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"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 face="arial"><b>As usual, an open mic will start the evening--all
genres welcome. Please come a few minutes early to sign
up.</b></font></blockquote>
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