Naples Native Returns To Rochester For Mother’s Day Reading

Writers & Books is always pleased to feature women authors, especially when they are as talented and charismatic as Laura Rock Gaughan.  Join us on Friday, May 10th at 7:30 PM to hear Gaughan read from her debut story collection, Motherish, which features stories about women of all different life experiences. This event is free and open to the general public.

Laura Rock Gaughan’s first book, a short fiction collection called Motherish, was published in 2018. Her award-winning fiction and essays have appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Canada, Ireland, and the United States. She has taught college-level creative writing classes and coached clients on clear writing and communications. Raised in Naples, NY, she now lives in Lakefield, Ontario, Canada with her husband and four children.

The women who populate Laura Rock Gaughan’s debut story collection, Motherish, veer from playful to distraught, reckless to restrained, anchored to unmoored.  Gambling grandmas, athletes and organists, pregnant bus passengers and punitive bank tellers are pushed to the brink by Gaughan’s distinctively precise prose, while they grapple with what it means to mother and be mothered.

 

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