Politics & Prose at Busboys and Poets, Brookland, presents Andrea Kleine to discuss her new book Calf.
In her unsettling debut novel, Kleine, a performance artist whose interdisciplinary projects have encompassed film, dance, and writing, draws on recent national and personal history for a dual narrative whose chilling finale is as inexorable as it is suspenseful. While a character modeled on John Hinckley, Jr., becomes increasingly delusional, an eleven-year-old girl, already reeling from her parents’ divorce and slow to adapt to her new life in Washington, suffers another shock when her only friend is killed.
Kleine will be in conversation with novelist Maud Casey, author most recently of The Man Who Walked Away.
