Patricia Elam Reading in Morgantown

Morgantown: Monday, March 17th, 7:30 p.m.

Visiting Novelist Patricia Elam will read from her novel, Breathing Room, March 17th at WVU. Booklist called "Breathing Room" a "compassionate and genuine" novel that grapples with "the uncertainty and burden of motherhood, the compromise of friendship and the power of intimacy." Elam - whose work has appeared in Essence, The Washington Post, Newsday and the O. Henry Awards: Prize Stories anthology - will be the first author to give a reading for the public in the newly refurbished Colson Hall, across from WVU*s Downtown Library. The reading begins at 7:30 p.m. in Room 130.

Admission is free.

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