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PRESENTERS: Jennifer Haigh & Milo Todd
BOOKS: Rabbit Moon & The Lilac People
MODERATOR: Fred McKindra
Jennifer Haigh is the author of eight bestselling, critically acclaimed works of fiction. Her first novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award for debut fiction, and her novel Mercy Street won the 2023 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award.
Milo Todd, a Massachusetts Cultural Council grantee and a Lambda Literary Fellow, is co–editor in chief at the journal Foglifter. He teaches creative writing and history primarily to queer and trans adults, and he has received awards, accolades, and fellowships from such places as Tin House, Pitch Wars, GrubStreet, and Monson Arts. His work has appeared in Slice magazine and elsewhere.
Rabbit Moon is set in Shanghai, where a fractured American family confronts their troubled past after their estranged daughter is hit by a car.
The Lilac People is a moving and deeply humane novel about a trans man who must relinquish the freedoms of pre-World War II Berlin to survive first the Nazis then the Allies while protecting the ones he loves.
AGE GROUP: | Teens ages 12-19 | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Society & Culture | Literature & Language |
TAGS: | SixBridgesBookFestival | RonRobinsonTheater |
Today's hours
We're open 9:00AM to 5:30PM
The Ron Robinson Theater is a 315-seat multi-purpose event venue. Part of the Central Arkansas Library System’s (CALS) Main Library campus, it is designed to provide programs for all ages including films, music performances, plays, readings, lectures, speakers, and children’s activities. The theater is equipped with a state-of-the-art DCI-compliant Barco digital cinema projection system and 32′ wide retractable screen; and, a versatile sound system capable of Dolby 5.1 surround audio for movies, with a CL3 digital mixing console with ample inputs for traditional music concerts.
