Milwaukee Reads' Women's Speakers Series event w/ Dawn Tripp, author of Jackie
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Tickets are now on sale! Be sure to buy your ticket using the following link, as well as RSVP here on Meetup so we know how many to expect.
Milwaukee Reads presents a ticketed Women's Speakers Series event featuring Dawn Tripp, author of the Jackie. It's a mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in which Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention. Cohosted by Boswell.
Tickets for this event cost $40 plus tax and fee, and each ticket includes admission, one drink, light snacks, and a paperback copy of Jackie.
Jackie is the story of a woman - deeply private with a nuanced, formidable intellect - who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of unthinkable violence. This vivid novel is a captivating work of the imagination and a window into the world of a woman who led many lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, and Jackie O.
Author Chris Bohjalian says: “The reason we read historical fiction is because sometimes the facts just aren’t enough. A brilliant, beautiful book like Dawn Tripp’s Jackie touches the soul in ways conventional biographies can’t. I devoured this novel and felt the power of history and a remarkable woman.” And from the Washington Post: "Tripp’s wonderful, pointillistic skill with physical description and the deft, empathetic leaps she takes - jumping off from letters, contemporary memoirs and photographs snapped of the former first lady - gives Jackie undeniable emotional punch."
Dawn Tripp is author Georgia, a finalist for the New England Book Award and winner of the Mary Lynn Kotz Award for Art in Literature, Moon Tide, and The Season of Open Water, which won the Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction. Her poems and essays have appeared in the Virginia Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, and NPR.
Milwaukee Reads' Women's Speakers Series event w/ Dawn Tripp, author of Jackie