INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana Humanities is bringing New York Times bestselling-author and National Book Award-finalist Jean Thompson to Hoosier audiences for a free online INconversation discussion on Nov. 10 from 7-8 p.m. via Zoom.
Thompson will discuss her National Book Award finalist novel The Year We Left Home (chosen by Indiana Humanities for the 2020 One State/One Story selection), her career as a writer, and the stories we tell about the Midwest. Barb Shoup, director of the Indiana Writers Center, will moderate the conversation.
The Year We Left Home offers a sweeping, multi-generational look at living in the Midwest during the final decades of the 20th century. Beginning in Iowa in 1973, the novel follows the Erickson family through the many changes affecting American life.
Thompson is a novelist and short-story writer whose works also include the novels A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, She Poured Out Her Heart, The Humanity Project, City Boy and Wide Blue Yonder, as well as the short-story collections The Witch and Other Tales Re-Told, Do Not Deny Me, Throw Like a Girl, Who Do You Love (a National Book Award finalist) and Little Face and Other Stories.
Register for the free event online at inconversationjeanthompson.eventbrite.com
