7 PM - 8 PM | August 29
Donnaldson Brown will be in conversation with Kate Moses and will read from her debut novel Because I Loved You (published Spring ’23). The novel is an epic love story and rich family saga that takes readers from the East Texas chaparral in 1972, against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, to New York City’s vibrant downtown art scene in the mid-1980’s, to the (pre-pandemic) present day, and from dreams lost to dreams rediscovered. Brown weaves together a powerful story of abiding love—romantic love, parental love, and the kind of love that sets a person free to choose one’s own path and maybe, hopefully, return.
Pre-registration is appreciated, but not necessary.
Location: Main Campus. Look for Craigardan Event sign at the end of Main Campus driveway (two “doors” west of the farm store, towards Keene).
“A novel of passion and place, ambition and expectation, Because I Loved You is a beautifully written story that speaks with equal tenderness to the wild abandon of young love and the awful heartbreak of dreams deferred. A gorgeous debut.” -Amy Brill, author of, The Movement of Stars
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Donnaldson Brown is a former attorney and screenwriter, and student of theater (and clowning). She’s been awarded multiple residencies, and has performed her spoken word pieces for The Deep Listening Institute’s Writers in Performance and Women & Identity Festivals in New York City, and in the Made in the Berkshires Theatre Festival in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. A longtime resident of both Brooklyn, New York and western Massachusetts, she grew up riding horses on a family ranch in northeast Texas and in her native Connecticut. Certified to teach meditation and several forms of yoga, Ms. Brown is currently a facilitator and trainer with The Equus Effect, offering somatic based experiential learning with horses for veterans, first responders and others struggling with post-traumatic stress injuries.