Oct
7
7:00 PM19:00

Spencertown Festival of Books

Virtual Event—Registration required

Rishi Reddi. Passage West. and Dexter PalmerMary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen.

Two authors will discuss their historical fiction with Daphne Kalotay, prize-winning author of short stories and novels (Russian WinterSight ReadingBlue Hours). Passage West tells the story of a Punjabi family, their Mexican in-laws and their Japanese neighbors at the onset of World War I in California. Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen fictionalizes the unlikely but true event of a woman giving birth to seventeen rabbits in 18th century England, confounding apprentice and experienced surgeons in rural England and London, and intriguing King George I.

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