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The Fact of a Body: Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich & Robin Wasserman

Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defence of convicted murderer and child molester, Ricky Langley, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly opposed to the death penalty. But the moment she hears Ricky speak of his crimes, she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper into the case, and is forced to confront her own family’s long-buried secrets, and to reckon with how her own past colours her view of his crime. “This book is a marvel,” raves Celeste Ng. “The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth.”

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Award, and has twice been a fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. Her essays appear in the New York Times, Oxford American, and the anthologies True Crime and Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women. She is joined by Robin Wasserman, whose books for young adults include The Waking Dark, The Book of Blood and Shadow, and the Seven Deadly Sins series, which was adapted into a TV miniseries for Lifetime.











When: Thu., May. 18, 2017 at 7:00 pm
Where: McNally Jackson
52 Prince St.
212-274-1160
Price: Free
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Before Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defence of convicted murderer and child molester, Ricky Langley, she thinks her position is clear. The child of two lawyers, she is staunchly opposed to the death penalty. But the moment she hears Ricky speak of his crimes, she is overcome with the feeling of wanting him to die. Shocked by her reaction, she digs deeper into the case, and is forced to confront her own family’s long-buried secrets, and to reckon with how her own past colours her view of his crime. “This book is a marvel,” raves Celeste Ng. “The Fact of a Body is equal parts gripping and haunting and will leave you questioning whether any one story can hold the full truth.”

Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is a 2014 National Endowment for the Arts fellow, a recipient of the Rona Jaffe Award, and has twice been a fellow at both MacDowell and Yaddo. Her essays appear in the New York Times, Oxford American, and the anthologies True Crime and Waveform: Twenty-first Century Essays by Women. She is joined by Robin Wasserman, whose books for young adults include The Waking Dark, The Book of Blood and Shadow, and the Seven Deadly Sins series, which was adapted into a TV miniseries for Lifetime.

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