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Hopewell Library Speakers Series - Martha McPhee at Hopewell Theatre

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Thursday September 19, 2024
7:00 PM

Local, award-winning novelist Martha McPhee just published her first memoir, Omega Farm. Martha grew up on Omega Farm in Ringoes with her four sisters, five step siblings, mother, and stepfather, in a house filled with art, people, and the kind of chaos that was sometimes benevolent, sometimes more sinister. The pandemic brought Martha home again to her childhood farm to care for her ailing mother. With her husband and children in tow, Martha strives to nurture the present (along with a forest) while the past relentlessly asserts itself—even as Martha's mother, the person she might share her memories with or even try to hold to account, no longer knows who Martha is.

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