Writing About Home with Joanne Jacobson

Join us for a moving and thought-provoking reading and conversation centered around the subject of "home" with Joanne Jacobson, author most recently of In the Photic Zone.
What does it mean to return home? After nearly fifty years in Iowa, France, Vermont and New York City, and deep into the global pandemic, Joanne Jacobson returned to the Midwest where she'd grown up-and to writing about home. In the Photic Zone borrows from oceanography the model of the "photic zone" the top layer of bodies of water, where photosynthesis-the generation of life from light-takes place. In these essays, Jacobson recovers the different forms that "home" has taken for her-family, geography, the body-and probes the emotional life that goes on beneath what's visible on the surface.
David Sugarman writes "Every single word in this collection illuminates something bright and new about the world. Every story creates constellations. For what hides in our blood, or in the earth, or in our childhoods, or in our deepest relationships, Jacobson finds the language. How can writing be so lyrical and precise at once? This is the work of a master."
We hope you can join us for this special event!