Goldbloom, a
Chicago resident originally from Western Australia, has written a novel about a
little-known period in the history of her native country. During World War II,
eighteen thousand Italian prisoners of war were sent to Australia at the
request of the British government. After Italy’s surrender, many of them were
sent to work, unguarded, on farms in isolated regions. National Book
Award-winning author Andrea Barrett says of The
Paperbark Shoe, “I have never read anything quite like this, nor has anyone
else… Brilliant.”
The Paperbark Shoe won the AWP award for the novel and was
originally published as Toads’ Museum of
Freaks and Wonders. It was also the Independent Publisher's Book of the
Year and has recently been reissued by Picador Press. Her short fiction has been
published in her collection You Lose
These, and in venues such as Prairie
Schooner, Narrative, and Story Quarterly, as well as in
anthologies. She is a nationally recognized speaker and an LGBT activist. She
is a professor at Northwestern University and lives in Chicago with her eight
children.
Join us!
Monday, November 11
4:30–6:00 p.m.
Gage Gallery
18 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60603
Free and open to the public
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