We are thrilled to welcome the author of the bestseller, Hild to the Heiner! So Lucky is a profoundly personal and emphatically political story of a confident woman forced to confront an unnerving new reality when in a single week her wife leaves her and she is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Mara Tagarelli is, professionally, the head of a multimillion-dollar AIDS foundation; personally, a committed martial artist. But her life has turned inside out like a sock.

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After Julie receives a phone call that her father Marty has been having screaming matches with himself on the lawn, she returns to her small hometown to care for him. But strange things are happening: animals appear to be dying by suicide. Through the lens of magic realism, Land Mammals and Sea Creatures touches on the many ways we choose to destroy ourselves, as a species and as individuals.

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Harvey will be accompanied by musical guests Paul and Allison Anders, a father/daughter duo.They will be singing and playing the mandolin, guitar, fiddle, and possibly the banjo.

"Hampden Road is a place of sardine can row houses with spiked hair antennae looking down to sneakers hanging on telephone wires. It’s where Sputnik slowly crawling across the sky dropped cinders on us. Caddys, Chevs, and Fords spun out on curves to scare us kids and impress the chicks.