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Writers at the Wrecking Bar Presents Michael Knight - At the Briarwood Schools for Girls

Thursday May 9, 2019 07:00 PM EDT
Cost: Free

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Location: 
Wrecking Bar Brewpub
292 Moreland Avenue, Atlanta, GA 30307
From the award-winning writer of “Eveningland” and “The Typist,” Michael Knight, comes an incisive, witty, beautifully-written novel set at a boarding school in the Virginia countryside.

Knight will discuss his new novel “At Briarwood School for Girls” with Alison Law, host of the Literary Atlanta podcast, at our Writers at the Wrecking Bar literary salon.

About the Book

It’s 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she’s pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control.

Meanwhile, Disney has announced plans to build a new theme park just up the road, a “Technicolor simulacrum of American History” right in the middle of one of the most history-rich regions of the country. If successful, the development will forever alter the character of Prince William County, VA, and have unforeseeable consequences for the school.

When the threat of the theme park begins to intrude on the lives of the faculty and students at Briarwood, secrets will be revealed and unexpected alliances will form. Lenore must decide whom she can trust-will it be a middle-aged history teacher struggling to find purpose in his humdrum life? A lonely basketball coach tasked with directing the school play? A reclusive playwright still grappling with her own Briarwood legacy? Or a teenage ghost equally adept at communicating with the living via telephone or Ouija board?

Following a cast of memorable characters as they reckon with questions about fate, history, and the possibility of happiness, “At Briarwood School for Girls” is a stunning and inventive new work from a master storyteller.

About the Author

Michael Knight is the author of the novels “The Typist” and “Divining Rod;” the short story collections “Eveningland,” “Goodnight Nobody,” and “Dogfight and Other Stories;” and the novella “The Holiday Season.” He teaches creative writing at the University of Tennessee and lives in Knoxville with his family.

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