Lauren Elkin: Building a Life

  • Mon 19 Aug 12:45 - 13:45
  • EFI Venue NW
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Lauren Elkin: Building a Life

Does the past ever leave a place? Lauren Elkin, author of Art Monsters and Flâneuse, makes her first foray into fiction with Scaffolding, a novel about two couples living in the same Parisian apartment: one in 2019 and one in 1972. Despite being 40 years apart, characters face similar challenges in politically tumultuous times. Elkin discusses her novel’s themes of marriage, pregnancy, and desire with Caoilinn Hughes. 

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