Sylvia Brownrigg

SYLVIA BROWNRIGG
reading & booksigning for "The Delivery Room"
Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 pm

"The Delivery Room" is the new novel for Sylvia Brownrigg. Compelling, complex, and deeply human, it is both an engaging examination of the incomplete understandings that course between therapist ... (more)and patient and a set of variations on the theme of motherhood - as well as a timely meditation on the meanings of wars fought from a distance when ordinary citizens have to measure their personal grief’s against the outrages experienced by those under attack.

Sylvia Brownrigg grew up in Los Altos, California, and Oxford, England, was educated at Yale and Johns Hopkins Universities, and lived for many years in London. She is married to San Francisco radio host Sedge Thomson and lives in Berkeley, California.

This Booksmith sponsored event will take place at The Booksmith (1644 Haight Street in San Francisco). For further information, call 415-863-8688 or visit www.booksmith.com If you can't attend this event and would like to order a signed copy of the author's new book, please email or phone our store.

MORALITY TALEWe welcome back acclaimed Bay Area short story writer and novelist Sylvia Brownrigg (Ten Women Who Shook the World, The Metaphysical Touch, Pages for You), here to present her new novel, which revolves around the triangular complications in a marriage, and the comedy that flows through them. ... (more)" . . . tells us more about the emotional politics of modern marriage—and divorce—than I can remember reading in a long time. It's a bulletin from the front lines: timely, true, and at its heart surprisingly tender." Ann Packer, author of Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier.

Morality Tale is set in Northern California. and features a rather inexperienced young woman who is burdened by her husband’s ongoing negotiations with his angry ex-wife, the strains of looking after two stepchildren, and the lingering ghost of her own past betrayals. She is finding her marriage ... (more)daunting at best, when she meets a man through her work who seems to be everything her husband is not. Her fantasies about him and the friendship that develops between them casts a shadow over her marriage. This subtle and restrained comedy about modern marriage, especially second marriage, is a bittersweet delight.