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Sylvia Brownrigg Launches Her New Memoir "The Whole Staggering Mystery"
Berkeley author SYLVIA BROWNRIGG comes to Mrs. Dalloway's to launch her new memoir, "The Whole Staggering Mystery: A Story of Fathers Lost and Found". She will be joined in conversation by author PEGGY ORENSTEIN.
Vividly weaving together the lives of her father and grandfather, through memory and imagination, Brownrigg explores issues of sexuality and silences, and childhoods fractured by divorce. In her uncovering of this lost family, she finally makes her own story whole.
SYLVIA BROWNRIGG is the author of several acclaimed works of fiction, including award-winning novels "Morality Tale"; "The Delivery Room"; "Pages for You"; and "The Metaphysical Touch"; as well as a collection of stories, "Ten Women Who Shook the World". Brownrigg’s works have been included in The New York Times and Los Angeles Times lists of notable fictions and have been translated into several languages. Her novel for children, "Kepler’s Dream", written under the name Juliet Bell was published in 2012 and turned into a feature film. Brownrigg lives with her family in London and Berkeley.
PEGGY ORENSTEIN is the New York Times bestselling author of "Unravelling", "Boys & Sex", "Girls & Sex", "Don’t Call Me Princess", "Cinderella Ate My Daughter", "Waiting for Daisy", "Flux", and "Schoolgirls". A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and AFAR, her work has appeared in the Washington Post, New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, and other publications, and she has contributed commentary to NPR’s All Things Considered and PBS NewsHour. Her TED Talk has been viewed over 5.7 million times.
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