4:30pm
Every Imaginable Shade of Gray

Every Imaginable Shade of Gray tells the story of a family irreparably damaged by the death of a young boy. The tragic accident that takes his life triggers years of bitter recrimination between his parents, reverberating for decades through their lives and those of their two daughters. Told through the voice of the youngest daughter, Schiff's novel chronicles a family's undoing and its far-reaching consequences.

7:30 p.m.
Sappho's Salon: A Provocative Night of Lesbian Diversions

Featuring Carolyn Gage and Sister Tara presenting The Lesbian Tent Revival
$7-10 sliding door charge includes food and wine

In January, our monthly salon night for lesbians and their friends features award-winning playwright, performer and activist "Sister" Carolyn Gage. Joined by her musical
sidekick, "Sister" Tara, Gage will reprise her wildly popular Lesbian Tent Revival: a rousing hour of foot-stomping, hand-clapping, irreverent songs and sermons that will leave you crackling with radical ideas, righteous indignation, and a lesbianic lust for life!
Proceeds benefit the artists and the Women's Voices Fund.

4:30pm
Cornelia Maude Spelman
Missing: A Memoir
Kathleen Hill
Who Occupies This House

Hailed by Alex Kotlowitz as "memoir writing at its absolute finest," Spelman's
memoir of her mother's life was inspired by a conversation with a college friend of both of her parents, celebrated New Yorker editor, William Maxwell. With the pacing of a mystery novel, Spelman uses letters, family interviews, medical bills, and telegrams to reconstruct a life and unravel the mysteries of her family. Kathleen Hill's novel, Who

Occupies This House, is a lyrically fictionalized recreation of a family's history. Of the book, writer Joan Silber raves, "This is a novel of great beauty. Step by step it works its way deep into the interior lives of vanished family, sifting through evidence to solve mysteries, rejudge sorrows, and think, over and over, about forgiveness."

7:30pm
Dakota

In her epic novel set in late nineteenth century Dakota Territory, Brenda Marshall opens a window onto a place little known and often misunderstood, to tell an original tale of desire and ambition. Emotionally complex, willful and resourceful, Frances Houghton Bingham is seduced by the myths of opportunity driving the settlement of Dakota Territory, and dares to dream of a new world in which to realize her desires.

4:30pm
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

Durrow's debut novel tells the story of Rachel, daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., who becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy after a fateful morning on their Chicago rooftop. With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community where her light brown skin and blue eyes bring mixed attention her way. Join Durrow for a celebration of the paperback release of the winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize, Barbara Kingsolver's literary award for works addressing issues of social justice.

7:30pm
Hannah Pittard
The Fates Will Find Their Way
Kathleen Rooney
For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs

In her debut novel, DePaul University instructor Hannah Pittard explores the
effect that a 16-year-old girl's disappearance has on her close-knit neighborhood and the boys who went to school with her. Spinning the possibilities of what happened in vivid detail, Pittard keeps the reader guessing which version, if any, is the girl's true fate. Kathleen Rooney's funny and charming collection of essays, For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs details twenty-something life in the twenty-first century including, among other things, plagiarizing, entering convents, and transporting U.S. Senators.