In conversation with Essie Chambers, moderated by Jamie Brenner, at St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 1:20 pm to 2:10 pm
About the author
Sarah Sawyer is an English teacher who lives and works at a boarding school in Western Massachusetts where she finds endless humor and inspiration in her colleagues and students. She is a graduate of Amherst College and the Bread Loaf School of English. The Undercurrent is her first novel.
MFOB featured book: The Undercurrent
In this gripping debut novel, an overwhelmed new mother gets entangled in the unsolved disappearance of a young girl from her Texas hometown—and unearths her family’s own dark secret. Told from multiple perspectives with two timelines, The Undercurrent highlights how different our lived experience can be from that of our neighbors, and how one event can forever change a community and its inhabitants.
