The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly—author talk with Katherine Sherbrooke.

Wednesday, August 30 at 5:00: The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly—author talk with Katherine Sherbrooke.

It’s 1948, and Aster Kelly leaves New York City modeling behind for Hollywood, determined to realize her dream of designing clothes. Desperate for work, she takes on a job as a stand-in model for Lauren Bacall. Told in two timelines, sweeping from New York to Los Angeles, and from San Francisco to Martha’s Vineyard, THE HIDDEN LIFE OF ASTER KELLY uses historic Hollywood and Broadway to explore timely themes: the freedom to love who you want; the challenges and triumphs of leaving behind manufactured conformity in favor of your authentic self; the power of deep, essential friendship; and the question of what the “truth” actually means. It’s a joyful celebration of chosen family and of enduring love—with plenty of juicy details and resonant issues to discuss long after the last page is turned.

Katherine A. Sherbrooke is the author of a family memoir called Finding Home and three novels: the New York Times notable Leaving Coy’s Hill, which was selected for 2022 MA Book Award’s Honors in Fiction prize, Fill the Sky, the winner of a 2017 Independent Press Award and finalist for the Mary Sarton Award for Contemporary Fiction, and her newest novel, The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly. She served for the past nine years as Chair of the Board of GrubStreet, the nation’s largest creative writing center and Boston’s first public arts space dedicated to the written word,

Email tthorpe@clamsnet.org for more info. Free. Sponsored by the Friends of the Chilmark Library. 508-645-3360