The Greenwich Chapter of Room to Read, a global non-profit focused on literacy and girls’ education, is hosting an evening with New York Times best-selling author Claire Messud, author of the widely acclaimed The Emperor’s Children, The Woman Upstairs and most recently, The Burning Girl. Messud is the recipient of Guggenheim and Radcliffe Fellowships and the Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Noted for her unparalleled ability to bring the lives and desires of woman to light, Claire will be discussing her newest book, The Burning Girl.
On its surface, Messud’s new novel, The Burning Girl, is a deceptively simple tale of a friendship between two girls, yet in it lies a piercing story of adolescence and identity. It is a complex examination of the stories we tell ourselves about youth and friendship, and straddles, expertly, childhood’s imaginary worlds and painful adult reality—crafting a true, immediate portrait of female adolescence. In a recent profile in the New York Times magazine, the author wrote that Messud “specialized in creating unusual female characters with ferocious, imaginative inner lives.”
The event will be held at the Greenwich Country Day School on Jan. 30. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. All proceeds from the event will benefit Room to Read. Tickets are available at: roomtoread.org/greenwich
