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AAUW, Inlandia, and Friends of the Library welcome guest speaker Susan Straight in conversation with her book, In the Country of Women.

This event takes place at the Arlington Public Library located on 9556 Magnolia Ave and will start at 10:30 am on Saturday, March 28th. This event is free and open to the public.

Susan Straight has published eight novels, including Highwire Moon, Between Heaven and Here, and A Million Nightingales. She is the recipient of the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angles Times Book Prize, the Edgar Ward for Best Mystery Story, the O. Henry Prize, The Lannan Prize for Fiction, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Her stories and essays have been published in The New Yorker, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Granta, McSweeney's, Black Clock, Harper's, and other journals. Susan is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. She was born in Riverside, Where she lives with her family. In the Country of Women will be available for book signing and sale.