Join us on Tuesday, June 24 at 7 PM as Heather Clark presents her novel, 
The Scrapbook.
 
She will be in conversation with Amanda Golden.
About the Book
From the award-winning author of 
Red Comet
: 
The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath
, a stunning debut novel: the story of an intense first love haunted by history and family memory, inspired by the startling WWII scrapbook of Clark’s own grandfather, hidden in an attic until after his death
The traumas of the past and the aftershocks of fascism echo and reverberate through the present in this story of a lifechanging seduction.
Harvard, 1996. Anna is about to graduate when she falls hard for Christoph, a visiting German student. Captivated by his beauty and intelligence, she follows him to Germany, where charming squares and grand facades belie the nation’s recent history and the war’s destruction. Christoph condemns his country’s actions but remains cryptic about the part his own grandfather played. Anna, meanwhile, cannot forget the photos taken by her American GI grandfather at the end of the war, preserved in a scrapbook only she has seen.
As Anna travels back and forth to Germany to deepen her relationship with the elusive Christoph, her perspective is powerfully interrupted by chapters that follow both of their grandfathers during the war. One witnesses the plight of Holocaust victims in the days after liberation and helps capture Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest, while the other fights for Nazi Germany. Their fragmented stories haunt Anna and her lover two generations later—and may still tear them apart.
Not a “World War Two novel” in the traditional sense, 
The Scrapbook
 delivers a consuming tale of first love, laced with a backstory of dark family legacies and historical conscience.
About the Author
HEATHER CLARK earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University. Her recent awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship; the Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism; the Slightly Foxed Prize for Best First Biography; a National Endowment for the Humanities Public Scholar Fellowship; a Leon Levy Biography Fellowship at the City University of New York; and a Visiting U.S. Fellowship at the Eccles Centre for American Studies, British Library. A former Visiting Scholar at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, she is the author of 
Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath; The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes; 
and 
The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962-1972
. 
Red Comet
 was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, and the LA Times Book Prize in Biography, and was a 
New York Times
 Top Ten Book of 2021. 
Red Comet
 was also a “Book of the Year” in 
The Guardian
, 
The Times
 (London), 
The Daily Telegraph
, 
The Boston Globe
, 
Lit Hub
, 
The Times of India
, 
Trouw
 (Netherlands), and elsewhere, and has been translated into five languages. Her work has appeared in publications including 
The New York Times
, 
Harvard Review, Time, Air Mail, Lit Hub, 
and 
The Times Literary Supplement.
 She lives outside of New York City.
About Amanda Golden
Amanda Golden is Associate Professor of English at New York Institute of Technology and a Research Affiliate at Smith College. She is currently co-editing 
The Poems of Sylvia Plath
 with Karen V. Kukil. Golden is the author of 
Annotating Modernism: Marginalia and Pedagogy from Virginia Woolf to the Confessional Poets.
 
She is co-editor of
 
The Bloomsbury Handbook to Sylvia Plath
 
and editor of
 
This Business of Words: Reassessing Anne Sexton.
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