Laura asks GMG to share a reminder for tonight and writes:
I’m speaking in Rockport as part of the UU Church’s Daring Democracy series.  If you can post about it, I’d be most grateful.Â
We decided to sing about some unsung heroes – the women who led the fight for the right to vote. This amazing story is not in most history books, and if you can find it in high school text books, please let me know. I’ll be talking about the musical we wrote – PERFECT 36 – about the ratification of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote at the UU Church in Rockport on 11/14 @ 7. Please join me. This story – which took place in 1920 – feels a whole lot like 2020 and is more relevant than ever.
Author of A Catalog of Birds, Europa Editions “A soaring new novel about love and loss.” The Washington Post Alice Bliss, winner of the Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction, A Boston Globe Bestseller
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Laura Harrington’s novel is available locally at The Bookstore of Gloucester and Toad Hall Rockport.
Read the review : http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwlIf9vjU by Charlotte Gordon, a professor of humanities at Endicott College, author most recently, of “Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Her Daughter Mary Shelley.”
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Laura Harrington’s New Novel, A Catalog of Birds, will be released on July 11 by Europa Editions. Â Two back to back special book launches in Gloucester:
Laura Harrington is an award-winning playwright, lyricist, librettist and author. She teaches at MIT and lives in Gloucester, MA.  And she sings! Alice Bliss, her first novel, grew out of Harrington’s one-woman musical Alice Unwrapped, which ran off-Broadway in New York and in the Minneapolis Fringe Festival in 2009. Her novel Alice Bliss (Viking/Penguin) won the 2012 Massachusetts Book Award in Fiction.  Playwrights Horizons has commissioned her to create Alice Bliss the musical which is in production 2017.Â
This summer I’m inviting book bloggers from across the United States and the globe to participate in an exciting, new international adventure: Where’s Alice Bliss? Please join us and help send Alice Bliss around the world. What Is Where’s Alice Bliss? Where’s Alice Bliss? is a campaign to send copies of the novel Alice Bliss to as many countries and U.S. states as possible. Through bookcrossing.com, copies of Alice Bliss will be registered and tracked as they travel around the world, passing from one reader to the next. Your bookcrossing ID (BCID) allows you to follow your book wherever it goes. It’s like a passport enabling your book to travel the world without getting lost. Once your book is registered, you will leave it in a public place with a…
Thank you! for the most fun and most unique interview of my life.
My only regret is that I didn’t get to ask you any questions and so missed an opportunity to learn more about you.
Many, many thanks for your support and your interest.
All best, Laura
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Laura Harrington is an award-winning playwright, lyricist and librettist. She teaches playwriting at MIT and lives in Gloucester, MA.  ALICE BLISS, her first novel, grew out of Harrington’s one-woman musical Alice Unwrapped, which ran off-Broadway in New York and in the Minneapolis Fringe Festival in 2009.
Set in upstate New York, ALICE BLISS is about a 15-year-old girl in 10th grade, named Alice Bliss. She is deeply connected to her dad who is serving in Iraq with his Reserve unit. It’s a transforming coming of age novel about a small town looking after its own in times of loss; the love between an absent father and his daughter; the complicated love between Alice and her mother, Angie; and first love between Alice and the boy next door. It’s a universal story and yet touches upon something very personal: these characters’ struggles amid uncertain times echo our own, lending ALICE BLISS an immediacy and poignancy that are both relevant and real.
EVENT SCHEDULE:
Cambridge, MA Harvard Bookstore / 7:00 pm June 8
Peabody, MA               Barnes & Noble / 7:00 pm                          June 9
Newburyport, MA          Jabberwocky Bookstore @ the Tannery / 7:00 pm      June 10
Concord, MA               Concord Bookshop / 3:00 pm               June 12
Northampton, MA          Broadside Bookshop / 7:00 pm           June 14
Rockport, MA   Toad Hall Books @ Rockport Library / 7:00 pm June 15
Boston, MA               Boston Public Library / 6:00 pm           July 12
Portland, ME Â Â Longfellow Books/ 7:00 pm
July 27
Peak’s Island, ME  Friends of Peak’s Island Library/ 7:00 pm
July 28
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