Join us in-person in the library or online for a conversation with Stacey D’Erasmo, award-winning author of The Complicities, a haunting and emotionally affecting story about a woman trying to rebuild her life after her husband’s arrest, and what she knew— or pretended not to know — about where their family’s money came from. With biting wisdom, The Complicities examines the ways in which the stories we tell ourselves — that we didn’t know, that we weren’t there, that it wasn’t our fault — are also finally stories of our own deep complicity. Joining Stacey in conversation is Suzanne Thurman of the Marine Education, Research, and Rehabilitation Institute (MERR).

Stacey D’Erasmo is the author of the novels Tea, A Seahorse Year, The Sky Below, Wonderland, and The Complicities; and the nonfiction book The Art of Intimacy: The Space Between. She is a former Stegner Fellow in Fiction, the recipient of a 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship in Fiction, and the winner of an Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation. Her essays, features, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Boston Review , Bookforum, The New England Review, and Ploughshares, among other publications. She is an Associate Professor of Writing and Publishing Practices at Fordham University. She lives in New York City. 

Suzanne Thurman is the founder and director of the Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute, Inc. (MERR). MERR was founded in 2000 to provide rescue and response services for stranded marine mammals and sea turtles occurring in Delaware. Now in its 21st year, the award winning non-profit organization has provided stranding response for over 3,000 animals, and served more than 200,000 people with their education programs. Prior to founding MERR, Suzanne worked in the field of special education at the Sussex Elementary Consortium in Lewes, and later segued into environmental education as an environmental educator at the Seaside Nature Center at Cape Henlopen State Park, and later as Director of the Carmine Environmental Center at Camp Arrowhead. Suzanne has spent most of her life residing in coastal Delaware, and from a young age became involved with environmental conservation to protect the creatures and the natural beauty of the marine ecosystem.

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