Marlboro College
Virtual
Marlboro, VT 05344
United States
Free and open to the public!
Marlboro College Alumni Speaker Series presents Deni Ellis Béchard ’97 Reading and Discussion of A Song from Far Away.
Béchard will be joining the Marlboro College Alumni Office via Zoom from Stanford, CA for a reading and discussion of his forthcoming novel, A Song from Far Away which takes on war, artistic expression, and family.
He says, “I wrote the first drafts of A Song from Faraway 20 years ago to understand how family identity could be transformed not only by borders and wars but also by various types of artistic expression. Over the course of many rewrites, the novel’s family took shape, with the lives of its members spanning a hundred and fifty years. Their paths often barely crossed and yet deeply affected each other, so that each new storyline joined the previous to create a larger narrative about the ways that artistic creations can transmit memory and history or catalyze change.”
This event is free and open to the public and is hosted by the Marlboro College Alumni Office. For more information please contact alumni director Maia Segura at msegura@marlboro.edu.
Deni Ellis Béchard
Animated throughout by a striking beauty and ferocity, A Song from Faraway pieces together “stories we tell about ourselves,” illuminating the human condition and our times.