Join us for a book talk with Wendy Reed

Wendy Reed, author of An Accidental Memoir: HowI Killed Someone and Other Stories, will read from and talk about her new work on Tuesday, November 5,  at 4:00 p.m. at Pebble Hill.

In An Accidental Memoir, Reed explores a succession of personal tragedies in a collection of deliberately fragmented essays. Told from unusual perspectives and in highly figurative language, the essays draw on the Southern Gothic tradition of Flannery O’Connor and feature dark humor, flawed people, disastrous events—including a car accident in which Reed was involved that took another woman’s life—and moments of spiritual grace. Taken together they become a meditation on subjects such as death, work, family responsibilities, and raising a child.

Wendy Reed has received writing fellowships from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and Seaside Institute and has published in various anthologies, magazines and newspapers. She also co-edited All Out of Faith and Circling Faith with Jennifer Horne. Reed produced and directed numerous documentaries and the series “Bookmark” with Don Noble at the University of Alabama Center for Public TV & Radio and for her work with “Discovering Alabama” she received two Emmys. She has three children and lives in Waverly, Alabama.

Copies of An Accidental Memoir, published by NewSouth Books, will be available for purchase and signing, and a reception will follow the program. The public is invited to attend.