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SUMMARY:The Children: Melissa Albert
DESCRIPTION:The haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert\, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author\, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series\, must contend with the vine-like creep of legacy\, memory\, and magic. Interviewed by OPB’s Jess Hazel. \nLimited guaranteed seat tickets with book included available; most of the theatre will be first-come first-served with a PBF GA pass.\nAbout The Children:\n \nNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK \n“Enchantingly sinister. . . a Gothic thriller\, with a frisson of magic.” —Jennifer Harlan\, The New York Times Book Review \n“An extraordinary book. It’s a page-turner\, full of mystery\, but that’s the least of it. The language is dusted with magic. The Children reminded me of Ray Bradbury at his best.” —Stephen King \nThe haunting new novel from New York Times bestselling author Melissa Albert\, in which the estranged adult children of a legendary author\, written into their dead mother’s beloved fantasy series\, must contend with the vine-like creep of legacy\, memory\, and magic. \nGuinevere Sharpe has two childhoods. \nIn one\, she and her brother\, Ennis\, live in the wooded shadow of their family’s isolated Vermont farmhouse; in the other\, the pages of their mother’s world-famous Ninth City books\, where their magical adventures have made them household names. In reality\, Guinevere’s childhood isn’t the enchanted idyll her mother’s readers imagine: she and Ennis are growing up near-feral\, unwashed and underfed\, escaping each day to the wild woods they’ve made their playland. As Edith Sharpe’s books explode into epic popularity\, the threats of a rural childhood give way to the escalating perils of fame—until the night it all goes up in flames\, leaving Edith’s series unfinished and her children the sole survivors. \nNow an adult coasting on her mother’s name\, Guinevere is mid-promotion for a ghostwritten memoir when her estranged brother\, an artist who has until now spurned his family’s legacy\, announces an upcoming installation titled\, simply\, Mother. As rumors swirl around a death connected to his last show\, unsettling recollections from Guinevere’s childhood begin to surface. Her public facade starts to crack\, forcing her to confront the questions she’s spent the last twenty years running from: What really happened the night of the fire? And what dark history lies behind their mother’s fantasy world? \nThe Children is wise to the mythic weight childhood memories gather over time\, and the way our most beloved stories grow up with us. It’s for anyone who’s ever revisited an old favorite and found its pages cast in a darker light\, the line separating magic from reality blurring as we discover the books that once comforted us carry shadows of their own.
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/the-children/
LOCATION:Portland’5: Newmark Theatre\, 1111 SW Broadway\, Portland\, OR\, 97205
CATEGORIES:Fiction Events,Ticketed Events
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