LAURA M. FLYNN
Tuesday, March 18 at 7:30 p.m.

In her memoir, Swallow the Ocean (Counterpoint), Minnesota-based writing teacher Laura Flynn has written a startling account of what it was like to grow up in a household with a schizophrenic mother. "Laura Flynn's Swallow the Ocean is an unforgettable memoir ... It is also about enchantment. Beautifully written, the book gains force and momentum in its depiction of an ongoing childhood nightmare that seems, to those experiencing it, almost ordinary. It demonstrates how resilient children can be ... and how wonderful the 'normal' can appear to be to a child who has been excluded from it." - Charles Baxter.

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