Defining Decades: Novels About Female Identity, Desire, and Society - Tickets Required

Hoffman Hall, Edison Auditorium

Saturday, Apr 18

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Event Description:

Join novelists Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney, Dylan Landis, Jennifer Niven, and Kate Schatz

A young woman comes of age in Greenwich Village, inventing herself as an artist through the tumult of the ’70s and ’80s. America’s favorite TV family in the 1960s realizes that their perfect façade is finally starting to crack. In tumultuous 1960s San Francisco, a pregnant teenager reckons with womanhood and agency after being sent to a home for unwed mothers. In the 1970s, two families are forever changed by one lovestruck decision that will reverberate for decades. These are stories of women confronting themselves and society during two era-defining decades of US history, when cultural revolution began to redefine economic and sexual politics for women.

Moderated by Claire Stanford