Join us at House of Books for a book talk and signing with Amanda Quaid, where she will be in conversation with Celia Keenan-Bolger about her new book No Obvious Distress.

About the book:

On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call – the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda’s marriage, work and family life as she knows it.

Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda’s unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.

House of Books
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Kent, CT 06757
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