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Gwenaëlle Aubry in Conversation with Rick Moody

Cleaning up her father’s home after his death, Gwenaëlle Aubry discovered a handwritten, autobiographical manuscript with a note on the cover: “to novelize.” The title was The Melancholic Black Sheep, but the subtitle, An Inconvenient Specter had been crossed out. The specter? Her father’s disabling bipolar disorder. Aubry had long known that she wanted to write about her father; his death, and his words, gave her the opportunity to explain his many absences — even while he was physically present — and to sculpt her memory of him. No One is a fictional memoir in dictionary form that investigates the many men behind the masks. Letter by letter, Aubry gives shape and meaning to the father who had long disappeared from her view.











When: Thu., Oct. 18, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Where: 192 Books
192 Tenth Ave.
212-255-4022
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Cleaning up her father’s home after his death, Gwenaëlle Aubry discovered a handwritten, autobiographical manuscript with a note on the cover: “to novelize.” The title was The Melancholic Black Sheep, but the subtitle, An Inconvenient Specter had been crossed out. The specter? Her father’s disabling bipolar disorder. Aubry had long known that she wanted to write about her father; his death, and his words, gave her the opportunity to explain his many absences — even while he was physically present — and to sculpt her memory of him. No One is a fictional memoir in dictionary form that investigates the many men behind the masks. Letter by letter, Aubry gives shape and meaning to the father who had long disappeared from her view.

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