March 16, 2013, Saturday - Barrie Jean Borich Publication Reading at The Loft

Tme: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, Performance Hall, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Author Barrie Jean Borich reads from her new memoir Body Geographic

About Body Geographic:
 
A memoir from the award-winning author of My Lesbian Husband, Barrie Jean Borich's Body Geographic turns personal history into an inspired reflection on the points where place and person intersect, where running away meets running toward, and where dislocation means finding oneself. Covering rough terrain--from the hardships of her immigrant ancestors to the travails of her often-drunk young self, longing to be madly awake in the world, from the changing demographics of midwestern cities to the personal transformations of coming out and living as a lesbian--Body Geographic is cartography of high literary order, plotting routes, real and imagined, and putting an alternate landscape on the map.

"Body Geographic is as astonishingly original as it is profoundly humane. Barrie Jean Borich writes of the body, the psyche, the land, and real life with a reach so grand and a mastery so definitie it clutches the heart. This is a beautiful, bold, blow-your-mind book." -- Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild.

About Barrie Jean Borich:

Barrie Jean Borich teaches creative writing in the English Department and the MA in Writing and Publishing program at Chicago's DePaul University. She divides her time between Minneapolis and Chicago.