Author emily m. danforth: Plain Bad Heroines in Lewes

Author emily m. danforth: Plain Bad Heroines

Join us for a live, virtual event with emily m. danforth, author of national bestseller, Plain Bad Heroines. Joining her in conversation is Sara Lautman, who illustrated the book. This story within a story within a story, featuring black-and-white period illustrations, and has been described as Picnic at Hanging Rock + The Blair Witch Project x lesbians = Plain Bad Heroines.

The award-winning author of The Miseducation of Cameron Post makes her adult debut with this highly imaginative and original horror-comedy centered around a cursed New England boarding school for girls—a wickedly whimsical celebration of the art of storytelling, sapphic love, and the rebellious female spirit. A century after the macabre deaths of several students at a New England girls' boarding school, the release of a sensational book on the school's history inspires a horror film adaptation that renews suspicions of a curse when the cast and crew arrive at the long-abandoned building.

emily m. danforth is the author of the highly-acclaimed young adult novel The Miseducation of Cameron Post. She has an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana and a PhD in English from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She lives with her wife and two terrible dogs in Rhode Island. Plain Bad Heroines is her first adult novel.

Sara Lautman is a cartoonist and illustrator. Her drawings have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Playboy, and The Paris Review, among other publications. She lives in Baltimore, where she teaches on faculty at MICA and feeds the cats.

Online program presented by the Lewes Public Library and Browseabout Books.

NOTE: this meeting is being conducted through Zoom. You MUST REGISTER to receive instructions for joining the meeting.

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