![]() ![]() It seems fitting that this year’s pick features a Rochester native, as Writers & Books celebrates its 35th anniversary. A bus tour of sites from Ghostbread, her first book, and Queen of the Fall - with Livingston along for the ride, giving short readings and talks at every stop - includes a tour and tea at the Susan B. ![]() Livingston mines memory and personal experience in this series of personal essays that explore femininity through the lenses of class, Catholicism and pop culture from the late 1980s to early ‘90s in America.Īuthor of only the second memoir in “If All of Rochester Reads the Same Book…” history, following Alison Smith’s Name All the Animals in 2006, Livingston will take part in 18 readings, book signings and appearances over a two-week period that starts Saturday. Praise for Livingston’s work speaks to her “gorgeous prose” and “absolutely unforgettable voice” for sentences like this one, from Queen of the Fall: “Like the olive trees of Lebanon are most stories, thousands of years’ worth of roots fingering the undersides of things.” “The best part of myself comes out in writing,” says the author of Queen of the Fall: A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses, selected by Writers & Books for its 16th annual “If All of Rochester Reads the Same Book…” program. Sometimes it’s only for 15 minutes, but every morning, Sonja Livingston writes before the world interrupts. ![]()
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