Author Event: Melissa Scholes Young in Conversation with Andrea Jarrell

225 North Washington Street,Rockville MD 20850

15 August, 2021

Description

Come hear two local Rockville authors talk with one another about their best-selling novels. Come hear two local Rockville authors talk with one another about their best-selling novels. Book signing after the talk. Books will be available for purchase. About Melissa Scholes Young and The Hive The Hive is a story about class in America and the fates of four Midwestern sisters and their family business. Melissa Scholes Young is the author of the novels The Hive and Flood, and editor of Grace in Darkness and Furious Gravity, two anthologies of new writing by D.C. women writers. She is a contributing editor at Fiction Writers Review, and her work has appeared in the Atlantic, Washington Post, Poets & Writers, Ploughshares, Literary Hub and elsewhere. She has been the recipient of the Bread Loaf Bakeless Camargo Foundation Residency Fellowship and the Center for Mark Twain Studies’ Quarry Farm Fellowship. Born and raised in Hannibal, Missouri, she is currently an associate professor in Literature at American University. About Andrea Jarrell and The One Who Got Away Fugitives from a man as alluring as he is violent, Andrea Jarrell and her mother develop a powerful unusual bond. Once grown, Jarrell thinks she’s put that chapter of her life behind her—until a woman she knows is murdered, and she suddenly sees that it’s her mother’s choices she’s been trying to escape all along. Without preaching or prescribing, I’m the One Who Got Away is a life-affirming story of having the courage to become both safe enough and vulnerable enough to love and be loved. I’m the One Who Got Away was named one of the Best Books of 2017 by Kirkus Reviews. Nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award and a finalist for several other awards, the book appeared on many 2017 must-read lists with The Today Show calling it "one of the most buzzed about books of Fall 2017." Jarrell’s essays have appeared in the New York Times “Modern Love” column, Harper’s Bazaar, Literary Hub, Narrative Magazine, the Washington Post, and many other sites, journals, and anthologies. She earned her BA in literature at Scripps College and her MFA in creative writing and literature at Bennington College. A Los Angeles native, she currently lives in suburban Washington, D.C.