Join author Robin MacArthur at the Putney Library on Thursday, September 15th at 7pm for readings from her new collection of short stories, Half Wild.
Straddling the border between civilization and the wild, the stories in Robin MacArthur’s formidable debut give voice to the hopes, dreams, hungers, and fears of the people of Vermont. Adolescent girls, farmers, aging hippies, disconnected women, and solitary men all struggle to make sense of their loneliness and desires in the stark and often isolating spaces they call home—golden fields and white-veiled woods, dilapidated farmhouses and makeshift trailers, icy rivers and still lakes.
In striking prose, powerful in its clarity and purity, MacArthur effortlessly renders characters who are wedded to the only land they know, people whose lives are inextricably intertwined—both with one another and with the natural world that surrounds them. MacArthur’s compelling and authentic voice carves out a distinctive vision of the wildness and beauty of rural Vermont.
Putney Library is located at 55 Main Street in Putney, VT. This program is free and open to the public.