Join us in celebrating Lighthouse faculty member Sarah Gerard, whose book, Carrie Carolyn Coco: My Friend, Her Murder, and an Obsession with the Unthinkable, comes out from Zando in July. Sarah will read from her book, which T Kira Māhealani Madden calls a "sweeping act of grace,” followed by an on-stage interview with Alexandra Kleeman. 

Schedule:
5:30 to 6:00 PM: Happy Hour

6:00 to 7:00 PM: Reading and interview

7:00 to 7:30 PM: Audience Q&A and signing

Sarah’s books will be available for purchase.

Sarah will also be giving a two-hour craft talk, Writing Real People, earlier in the day.

Sarah Gerard is the author of the essay collection Sunshine State, a New York Times Critics’ and NPR Best Book of the Year, a finalist for the Southern Book Prize, and longlisted for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award; the novels True Love and Binary Star, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Prize; a coauthored art book, Recycle; and the chapbook The Butter House. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Granta, Guernica, McSweeney’s, BOMB magazine, and more. She holds an MFA from The New School and is a graduate student in the criminal justice program at CU Denver, focusing on gender-based violence. She's a private investigator.

Alexandra Kleeman is the author of the novel Something New Under the Sun, Intimations, a short story collection, and the novel You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, which was awarded the 2016 Bard Fiction Prize and was a New York Times Editor’s Choice. In 2020, she was awarded the Rome Prize and the Berlin Prize, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction in 2022. Her fiction has been published in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Zoetrope, Conjunctions, and Guernica, among others, and other writing has appeared in Harper's, The New York Times Magazine, VOGUE, Tin House, n+1, and The Guardian. Her work has received fellowships and support from Bread Loaf, Djerassi, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Headlands Center for the Arts.