Carol Anshaw

Our Fiction Book Discussion Group meets the first Friday of every month. This month the group will be discussing Carry the One by Carol Anshaw.

Reminder: If you're a member of our book discussion group, you'll get this book at a discount!

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The Northshire Women Read group will meet at the Inn at Manchester on Monday, March 11 at 6pm for a discussion of Carry the One by Carol Anshaw.

Our reading group is currently filled with enthusiastic readers but we would love to invite you to join us at a later date. Please email Amy apalmer@northshire.com to join a waiting list.

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Carry the One by Carol Anshaw
Carry the One by Carol Anshaw

Book Group Through friendships and love affairs marriages and divorce parenthood, holidays and other calamities, Carry the One shows how one life affects another. Join the conversation of Carol Anshaw's characters that will touch most of our lives! (added from Barnes & Noble)… (more)

Wednesday, April 4, 7 p.m.

City Arts presents award-winning fiction writer Carol Anshaw reading from and signing her latest novel, Carry the One, which begins in the hours following a wedding reception when a car filled with stoned, drunk, and sleepy guests accidentally hits and kills a girl on a dark country road. For the next twenty-five years, those involved craft their lives in response to this single tragic moment. Utah's poet laureate, Katharine Coles will also read and sign.

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With high praise from Emma Donoghue and Publisher’s Weekly comes Anshaw’s novel of tragedy and transformation. A car accident the night of a wedding, kills a young girl, and haunts those involved for the next 25 years: through friendships, affairs, marriage, divorce, parenthood, holidays and ordinary life.

Carol Anshaw is also author of Aquamarine, Seven Moves, and Lucky in the Corner. She has received the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award for Fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing.

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“Reading this book, I felt like I was watching someone cross a tightrope with the same relaxed, assured stride they would use on solid ground. Anshaw is in such graceful command that her story about three gifted, wounded siblings almost doesn’t feel like fiction. The traumatic accident that derails the characters’ lives as young adults is a sort of echo of the childhood damage they’ve already lived through. The ways that they do and don’t survive this are variously tragic, stark, and beautiful, but always utterly convincing. Along the way, the generous Anshaw doles out psychological acuity, antic humor, cultural critique and profound wisdom as the merest casual asides. It can’t be as effortless as she makes it look, but it’s a pleasure to soar with her, for a while, on that high wire.” Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

“This deceptively casual novel is both intimate and mysterious, frank and elusive, full of the stuff of life—love, lust, drugs, dogs, marriage, children, divorce, art, prisons, and politics—while haunted every shimmering page of the way by the death of a young girl, whose ghostly presence poses one of this novel’s compelling questions: how can we disentangle old knots when new ones are being tied with every passing day?” Scott Spencer, author of Man in the Woods

Carol Anshaw is the author of Aquamarine, Seven moves, and Lucky in the Corner. She has received the Ferro-Grumley Award, the Carl Sandburg Literary Arts Award for Fiction, and a National Book Critics Circle Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. She lives in Chicago.

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