The Greenwich Pen Women and the Perrot Memorial Library will introduce a new, co-sponsored book discussion series beginning on Monday, March 6, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., in the Library’s Rand Room. The group will explore the theme of Contemporary Fiction Meets Shakespeare, with a discussion of Vinegar Girl, facilitated by Greenwich Pen Woman Jean P. Moore.
Vinegar Girl, by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Anne Tyler, is a retelling of Shakespeare’s play, The Taming of the Shrew. The novel, one in a series from the Hogarth Shakespeare project, is described by the project’s editors as “an inspired, witty and irresistible contemporary take on one of Shakespeare’s most beloved comedies.”
The novel tells the story of Kate Battista, who at 29 feels stuck keeping house for her obsessive scientist father and her pampered younger sister Bunny. Things can only get worse when her father hatches a plan: Kate should marry his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, who is soon to be deported. Kate furiously rejects the idea—at first—but will her father and her suitor wear down her resistance?
The Hogarth Shakespeare project presents the Bard’s works through an imaginative retelling by some of the world’s most esteemed novelists.
Greenwich Pen Women, a branch of the National League of American Pen Women, is a non-profit organization of local women artists, writers, and musicians. Find out more at greenwichpenwomen.org.
The series is free and open to all patrons of Perrot Memorial Library located at 90 Sound Beach Ave. Limited to 20 attendees. Please register at the Adult Circulation Desk or call 203-637-1066, ext. 15. For more information on the book discussion series, visit perrotlibrary.org/events.html.
