Each ticket ($30+fees) includes a seat at the author&rsquo\;s talk\, a copy of \;Skylark\, and a donation to the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation. \;
\nAbout the author:
\nPaula McLain
is the \;New York Times \;bestselling author of
six novels\, including \;The Paris Wife\, \;Circling
the Sun\, and \;Love and Ruin\, as well as two collecti
ons of poetry and a memoir. Her work has been published in over thirty-fiv
e countries\, and featured in \;The New York Times\, \;
A spellbinding and transportive look at a side of Paris known to very few&mdash\;the underground city that is a mirror reflection of the glories above&mdash\;Skylark chronic les two parallel journeys of defiance and rescue that connect in ways both surprising and deeply moving.
\n1664: \;Alouette Voland is the daughter of a master dyer at the famed Gobelin Tapestry Works\, who secret ly dreams of escaping her circumstances and creating her own masterpiece. When her father is unjustly imprisoned\, Alouette's efforts to save him le ad to her own confinement in the notorious Salpê\;triè\;re asyl um\, where thousands of women are held captive and cruelly treated. But wi thin its grim walls\, she discovers a small group of brave allies\, and th e possibility of a life bigger than she ever imagined.
\n1939: \ ;Kristof Larson is a medical student beginning his psychiatric residency i n Paris\, whose neighbors on the Rue de Gobelins are a Jewish family who h ave fled Poland. When Nazi forces descend on the city\, Kristof becomes th eir only hope for survival\, even as his work as a doctor is jeopardized.< /p>\n
Skylark is the Good Morning America Book Club pi ck for January! Watch the GMA interview with McLain: \;
\n \nPaula McLain will be in co nversation with \;Claire McMillan\, the author of&nbs p\;Alchemy of a Blackbird\, \;The Necklace\, and&nbs p\;Gilded Age. Claire is currently co-curating an exhibition with the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland based on her newest book\, A lchemy of a Blackbird\, set to open in January 2027. In 2024-2025 she mentored two finalists in Literary Cleveland's Breakthrough Writers Resid ency\, and she served as Cuyahoga County Public Library's 2017-2018 Writer in Residence. She's also a Trustee Emeritus of The Mount\, Edith Wharton& rsquo\;s home in Lenox\, Massachusetts. \;
\nAdditional books will be available for pu rchase courtesy of Mac&rsquo\;s Backs &ndash\; Books on Coventry.
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