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SUMMARY:Author Talk: Jen Fawkes
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DESCRIPTION:The Fayetteville Public Library\, Pearl's Books\, and Two Frie
 nds Books\, are partnering to host Jen Fawkes\, author of Daughters of Cha
 os..\nhttps://faylib.libnet.info/event/11006290
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Jen Fawkes will be in conversation with Ra
 chel Stuckey Slaton\, co-owner of Two Friends Books in Bentonville. Books 
 will be available for purchase by Two Friends and Pearl's\, and Jen will b
 e available for signing immediately following the event.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Ab
 out <em>Daughters of Chaos</em></p>\n<p>In 1862\, after a tragedy at home\
 , twenty-two-year-old Sylvie Swift parts ways with her twin brother to tra
 ce the origins of an enigmatic playscript that&rsquo\;s landed on their do
 orstep. This text leads her to Nashville\, an occupied city bustling with 
 soldiers\, saboteurs\, partisans\, powerful men&ndash\;&ndash\;and powerfu
 l women. Sylvie translates the playscript by day\, but at night\, drawn in
 to the work by the chief of the Union Army&rsquo\;s Secret Service\, she a
 cts as a spy. Both endeavors acquaint her with a sisterhood whose members&
 mdash\;including Hannah\, a fiery revolutionary to whom Sylvie is increasi
 ngly drawn&mdash\;possess potentially monstrous powers. Sylvie soon become
 s entangled in the Cult of Chaos\, a feminist society steadfast in its anc
 ient mission to eradicate the violence of men. Inspired by Aristophanes&rs
 quo\; Lysistrata and the true story of Nashville&rsquo\;s attempt to exile
  its prostitutes during the American Civil War\, <em>Daughters of Chaos</e
 m> (The Overlook Press\; July 9\, 2024 weaves together &ldquo\;found&rdquo
 \; texts\, fabulism\, and queer themes to question familiar notions of his
 tory and family\, warfare and power.</p>\n<p><strong>Jen Fawkes</strong> i
 s the author of <em>Mannequin and Wife</em>\, a 2020 Shirley Jackson Award
  Nominee\, winner of the 2023 Phillip H. McMath Post- Publication Book Awa
 rd and a Foreword INDIES gold medalist. Her collection <em>Tales the Devil
  Told Me</em> was a Foreword INDIES silver medalist\, a Largehearted Boy F
 avorite Collection of 2021 and a finalist for the 2022 World Fantasy Award
  for Single-Author Story Collection. Her fiction won the 2021 Porter Fund 
 Literary Prize and has appeared in <em>One Story</em>\, <em>Lit Hub</em>\,
  the <em>Iowa Review</em>\, <em>Best Small Fictions</em>\, and more. A two
 -time finalist for the Calvino Prize for fabulist fiction\, Jen lives in L
 ittle Rock\, Arkansas.</p>\nhttps://faylib.libnet.info/event/11006290
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