Author Marianne Novy, University of Pittsburgh professor of English and women's studies, will discuss her book "Reading Adoption: Family and Difference in Fiction and Drama" (University of Michigan Press, 2005, 2007) during a Pitt Book Center book signing from noon to 2 p.m. March 27, 4000 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is free and open to the public.
"Reading Adoption," recently released in paperback, draws on Novy's scholarship in the areas of Shakespeare, women novelists, and drama. The book explores the ways literature represents adoption, especially how novels portray the connections linking adoptees, their adoptive parents, and their birth parents. Novy includes readings of classic and contemporary works in the book and a memoir of her evolving understanding of herself as an adoptee.
This new book follows Novy's previous collection, "Imagining Adoption: Essays on Literature and Culture" (University of Michigan Press, 2001), which was the first book on adoption in literature to be published in the United States. It was named an Outstanding Academic Title by "Choice."
For more information, contact Pamela Jackson at 412-648-1452 or 412-648-2238.
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