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Readings By Writers: Gina Frangello
Readings By Writers: Gina Frangello

Thu, Jun 17

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Readings By Writers: Gina Frangello

Blow Your House Down. Gina recommends buying her book at your favorite independent bookstore or online at Women and Children First https://www.womenandchildrenfirst.com/book/9781640093164

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Jun 17, 2021, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM

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About the Workshop

Gina Frangello spent her early adulthood trying to outrun a youth marked by poverty and violence. Now a long-married wife and devoted mother, the better life she carefully built is emotionally upended by the death of her closest friend. Soon, awakened to fault lines in her troubled marriage, Frangello is caught up in a recklessly passionate affair, leading a double life while continuing to project the image of the perfect family. When her secrets are finally uncovered, both her home and her identity will implode, testing the limits of desire, responsibility, love, and forgiveness. Blow Your House Down is a powerful testimony about the ways our culture seeks to cage women in traditional narratives of self-sacrifice and erasure. Frangello uses her personal story to examine the place of women in contemporary society: the violence they experience, the rage they suppress, the ways their bodies often reveal what they cannot say aloud, and…

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