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Lara Vergnaud and Catherine Lacey Discuss "Life Sciences" at Unabridged Bookstore

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Join Lara Vergnaud and Catherine Lacey at Unabridged for a conversation about Joy Sorman’s Life Sciences, a stunning allegory about medical misogyny, chronic pain, and a centuries-old matrilineal curse, translated by Lara Vergnaud. Life Sciences is introduced by Catherine Lacey, who calls it a “feminist Metamorphosis.”

When: October 13 at 7:30 pm Central / 8:30 Eastern
Where:
Unabridged Bookstore (Chicago, IL) via Zoom

Lara Vergnaud is a literary translator from the French. She is the recipient of the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize and two PEN/Heim Translation Grants, and was a finalist for the 2019 Best Translated Book Award. Her forthcoming translations include works by Mohamed Leftah and Franck Bouysse. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.

Catherine Lacey is a Guggenheim fellow, a Whiting Award winner, and the author of four works of fiction: Nobody Is Ever Missing, The Answers, Certain American States, and Pew.

 

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