Wendy Reed at Pebble Hill

Author Wendy Reed visited Pebble Hill on November 5 to read from and talk about her new work, An Accidental Memoir: HowI Killed Someone and Other Stories.

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.

If you missed yesterday's book talk, Wendy will be participating in the Pioneer Park Book Fair, a feature of Lee County Historical Society's Second Saturdays program, on November 9 from 10:00 a.m. to Noon. Other authors participating include The Mystic Order of East Alabama Fiction Writers, Daniel Haulman, Ann Pearson, Mary Belk, Marian Carcache, Frye Gaillard, Peter Huggins, Lisa Ditchkoff, William Ogden Haynes, Gail Langley, Peggy Stelpflug, and The Committee for Preservation of Auburn's African-American History. For more information, visit http://www.leecountyhistoricalsociety.org.