Mother of All

Alexis Schaitkin

5:00pm

Monday, September 25, 2023

60 mins

Like the best speculative fiction, Alexis Schaitkin takes us into a world eerily similar to our own where fictional distortions reflect our flaws and challenge our norms. Shortlisted for the inaugural Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, Elsewhere conjures a claustrophobic community in which girls become wives and wives become mothers who are in turn idolised and repressively monitored by townsfolk; and some of them, quite simply, disappear. As in her debut novel, Saint X, Schaitkin interrogates the external forces that lay claim on women’s status, bodies and identities in society.

Moderated by Janice Zawerbny.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

How to attend

$19.99

Single Day Pass

$249.99

Full Festival Pass

Students and youth save up to 50% on passes.

Moderated by Janice Zawerbny.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Alexis Schaitkin

Alexis Schaitkin’s novel, Elsewhere, was a finalist for the Carol Shields Prize and an ALA Notable Book of 2023. Her debut novel, Saint X, was named a New York Times Notable Book of 2020 and has been translated into seven languages. Her fiction has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their two children.