Book Event: Barbara Wansbrough with Paul Holdengräber

Book Launch: Barbara Wansbrough presents Wild Things: A Geography of Grief

In conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Reception to follow

Former Greenlight neighbor Barbara Wansbrough (now based in Los Angeles) launches her debut Wild Things, a luminous, unforgettable work about loss and the radical clarity that comes when everything falls away. When B loses her favorite sister M—taken too young and too suddenly, under the strange and quiet shroud of the pandemic—she sets out, in the absence that follows, into the vast wilds of L.A.'s Griffith Park with her dog, walking uphill and down each day in search of understanding, of peace, of reconciliation; and guiding us gently toward a place we all must reach—where much can be left behind and a new wisdom awaits, B writes. Wild Things is the result: 59 letters to her sister, one for each year of her life, alive with grief, wonder, and transformation. Wansbrough's husband Paul Holdengräber (founder of LIVE from the NYPL), joins her for a reading and conversation on the book, before an audience Q&A and signing.