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Dave Isay, founder of StoryCorps, talks about Mom
04/26/2010 7:30 pm
04/26/2010 9:00 pm
Bookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome NPR contributor Dave Isay to Bookshop to present his new book, Mom.
Since 2003, StoryCorps has been one of the most ambitious oral history projects ever undertaken. Founded by Dave Isay, it has collected the life stories of more than fifty thousand Americans in all fifty states, and preserved these interviews for future generations at the Library of Congress. Millions of radio listeners look forward to hearing these stories each Friday morning on NPR.
Selecting StoryCorps’ most revelatory stories on the subject, Mom looks across a diversity of experience to present an entirely original portrait of motherhood.
In stories that take us from the Bronx to the rural South and beyond, we are introduced to mothers and children from all walks of life—single moms, working moms, moms with one child, moms with a dozen or more children, mothers who adopted children, mothers who lost children. Through conversations between parents and children, husbands and wives, siblings and friends, the life of the American mother unfolds. In moments of profound joy and sadness, courage and despair, struggle and triumph, we learn new truths about that most ancient and sacred of bonds—the relationship between mother and child.
Please join us for a book talk, signing, and Q&A with Dave Isay.
In the spirit of the StoryCorps, Bookshop Santa Cruz will be creating our own homage to mothers compiled of contributions from the community and we’ll be presenting highlights of this project at the event. Click here for details. Don’t miss this night!
