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how we spend our days: andre dubus iii
Annie Dillard wrote, “How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” On the first of each month, Catching Days hosts a guest writer in the series, “How We Spend Our Days.”
Today, please welcome writer ANDRE DUBUS III.
I wake with the touch of lips, Fontaine’s to mine, and then she’s already down the stairs and grabbing her bag. It’s not quite eight and she’s been up over an hour, getting ready to drive to her dance studio to sign in students or to teach a ballet class or to sit in her office and juggle all the administrative details that goes with being the woman who owns this studio, who runs its dance companies for teenagers, who’s the artistic director of the modern company she co-founded 32 years ago. She’s 57 years old and still performing. She’s the mother of our three children, and we’ve been together since Ronald Reagan was president.
An hour or so later, I wake again. I fumble for the remote and flick on CNN, keep it on Mute as I check the latest outrages committed against women and people of color and the poor and immigrants and common human decency itself, committed by the man inhabiting the White House. I did not know just how deeply I loved this country until its presidency and constitution were soiled
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Andre Dubus III in person with Martin Espada
Join us on Friday, August 4 at 7 PM as Andre Dubus III presents his new novel, Such Kindness. He will be joined in conversation by Martin Espada.
Due to the expected response, this event will be held at the First Congregational Church, 1 Church St, South Hadley, MA
About the Book
A working-class white man takes a terrible fall.
Tom Lowe’s identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family’s dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he is making every sacrifice for the happiness of his wife and son. Until, in a moment of fatigued inattention, shingling a roof in too-bright sunlight, he falls.
In constant pain, addicted to painkillers at the cost of his relationships with his wife and son, Tom slowly comes to realize that he can never work again. If he is not a working man, who is he? He is not, he believes, the kind of person who lives in subsidized housing, though that is where he has ended up. He is not the kind of person who hatches a scheme to commit convenience-check fraud, together with neighbors he considers lowlifes, until he finds himself stealing his banker’s trash.
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At Home narrow Literati: Amusement Martin & Andre Dubus III
We're troublesome to accept Lee Actor, author of Yours, Jean to our Representative Home finetune Literati series! He'll skin in colloquy with creator Andre Dubus III.
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