HVWC - Micah Perks and Galaxy Craze

Galaxy Craze of Amherst, MA, and New York City, likewise tells the story of a sixties upbringing in her best-selling debut novel By the Shore, which was described as "an ageless coming of age story" by Seattle Weekly. Craze's skillfully crafted narrator is May, a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her single mother in a struggling seaside English bed-and-breakfast. May is poised on the threshold of childhood and maturity and she gives us an exceptionally clear-sighted view in both directions. By the Shore possesses a mastery of language and story that few first novels do, "and the tension," says the New York Times Book Review, "is so palpable you'd think you were reading a thriller."

The Hudson Valley Writers' Center presents a reading with *Micah Perks* and Galaxy Craze Thursday, July 25th, 7:30 pm

Micah Perks is the acclaimed author of the novel We Are Gathered Here, and, most recently, her memoir Pagan Time: An American Childhood. Called "breakneck . . . a vigorous, dead-on portrait" by Publishers Weekly, Pagan Time recounts the magic and heartbreak of growing up in a 1960's wilderness commune among artists and drug users, visionaries and madmen. In elegantly spare prose, Perks tenderly and relentlessly explores her conflicted relationship with the places and people of her childhood and offers fresh and first-hand insight into an era of spiritual revelation and cultural revolution. She now lives in Santa Cruz and teaches at the University of California.	Galaxy Craze of Amherst, MA, and New York City, likewise tells the story of a sixties upbringing in her best-selling debut novel By the Shore, which was described as "an ageless coming of age story" by Seattle Weekly. Craze's skillfully crafted narrator is May, a twelve-year-old girl who lives with her single mother in a struggling seaside English bed-and-breakfast. May is poised on the threshold of childhood and maturity and she gives us an exceptionally clear-sighted view in both directions. By the Shore possesses a mastery of language and story that few first novels do, "and the tension," says the New York Times Book Review, "is so palpable you'd think you were reading a thriller."

*Suggested Donation: $5 ($3 for members)* The readings at the HVWC are made possible in part by grants from the Bydale Foundation and the Gannett Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government, corporations and individuals. Return to HVWC Calendar The Hudson Valley Writers' Center - Home