Events

Colfax Avenue: Phyllis Barber’s autobiography, How I Got Cultured, won the 1991 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Prize for Creative Nonfiction and the 1993 Award for Best Autobiography from the Association of Mormon Letters. Barber will read from and sign her new memoir Raw Edges ($26.95 Univ. of Nevada Press). When Barber’s thirty-three-year marriage disintegrated, she had to reconcile the jarring dissonance between her idealistic Mormon vision of marriage as a relationship that would endure through all eternity, and the painful reality of mutual infidelities and disparate needs. Raw Edges reflects the predicament that many women experience as marriages disintegrate, families fall apart, and people fail to achieve the expectations that their society or faith sets for them. It is also a story of hope, of how a woman overcome by grief and confusion eventually reinvents herself and finds a new approach to life. Visit Phyllis Barber’s website. Request a signed copy: books@tatteredcover.com