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On Thursday, March 19, at 5 p.m., the Everhart Museum will welcome Pew Fellow and award-winning poet and author Kirsten Kaschock for a free author talk about her new novel \u201cAn Impossibility of Crows.\u201d<\/p>\n
Blending feminist themes with echoes of Frankenstein, the novel explores mothers and daughters, generational trauma, the fragile line between care and control, and how things can go wrong when trying to harness a crow\u2019s incredible intelligence and ability.<\/p>\n
CrimeReads calls the novel \u201cliterary horror at its grotesque best\u201d and New York Times bestselling author Laura Lipman says \u201c\u2019An Impossibility of Crows\u2019 is a mesmerizing and wholly original novel,\u201d while China Mi\u00e9ville, author of Perdido Street Station calls the novel \u201ca text of baleful beauty\u201d which, like its monster \u201cis both achingly tender and ruthlessly unsentimental.\u201d<\/p>\n
Currently residing in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Kaschock is the author of seven poetry books and has received fellowships from the Pew Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Subcircle, and the Summer Literary Seminars.<\/p>\n
The talk will take place in the Everhart Bird Gallery, where more than 700 taxidermy specimens are on view to immerse the audience in the feel of the novel.<\/p>\n