Photos by Elena Seibert & Michael Epstein

Please join me and Laura Brown at WORD Brooklyn for an evening of lit chat about her funny, poignant, and wise new novel, MADE BY MARY. Antonya Nelson calls it "a jaunty read about the way we live now. The way we get born, and reborn, and surrogately born. The way we make fun of our foibles and fads without losing sight of what is eternal and earnest: the desire to sustain the species, to love our family no matter how it came to be, no matter how it spirals into the infuriatingly silly or the inimitably sublime."