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Join us as Andre Dubus III returns to the Maynard Library to speak about his latest novel, Such Kindness.

Andre Dubus III’s books include the New York Times’ bestsellers House of Sand and Fog, The Garden of Last Days, and his memoir, Townie. His novel, Gone So Long, received starred reviews from Publisher’s Weekly and Library Journal and has been named on many “Best Books” lists, including selection for The Boston Globe’s “Twenty Best Books of 2018” and “The Best Books of 2018”, “Top 100”, Amazon. 

His most recent books are the novel Such Kindness (June 2023) and, as editor, Reaching Inside: 50 Acclaimed Authors on 100 Unforgettable Short Stories (Godine, April 2023). A collection of personal essays, Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin, is due out in winter 2024. Such Kindness has received starred reviews from Booklist and Publishers Weekly. Novelist Lily King says "Such Kindness is magnificent. A profound and compassionate study of how to be human wrapped in a taut survival story. I loved it so much. This is Dubus at his absolute finest."

Mr. Dubus has been a finalist for the National Book Award, and has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, The National Magazine Award for Fiction, two Pushcart Prizes, and is a recipient of an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. His books are published in over twenty-five languages, and he teaches full-time at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, Fontaine, a modern dancer, and their three children.

Books will be available to purchase, courtesy of Porter Square Books.

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