Friday, September 30, 2011

Memoir Reading: Leaving Parma

Angie Sarich, author of the memoir Leaving Parma*, will visit ISU on Thursday, October 13th. She will read from her work at the Bengal Café (Student Union Building) at 4pm.

The book’s publisher, Colonus House, describes the book as an exploration of the Vietnam combat death of Sarich’s uncle and its effect on her mother, her grandparents, and the people of the small town of Parma, Idaho. Sarich witnesses how death can dim and brighten the human spirit, how it can erode and rebuild a family. Her work illuminates the meaning of loss for us all.

The reading, sponsored by ISU’s Department of English and Philospohy, will be followed by a book signing.

*Parma, Idaho. Sarich witnesses how death can dim and brighten the human spirit, how it can erode and rebuild a family. Her work illuminates the meaning of loss for us all.