Come with us into the mystery of Metropolis, a novel by B.A. Shapiro set in a storage facility in Cambridge. Boston’s housing shortage has an eclectic mix of characters living in a storage facility – until one of them dies. Metropolis traces how their interlocking narratives connect them and tear them apart. Shapiro has wrapped an ensemble cast around a mystery that thematically explores the myth of “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps” in current-day America.
Judy Bolton-Fasman, newspaper columnist and memoirist, sits down with B.A. Shapiro for a dynamic conversation probing the art of mystery, character development, and storytelling.
Trident Booksellers will sell copies of Metropolis and Judy’s memoir Asylum at the event.
Meet the Authors
B. A. Shapiro is the bestselling author of The Collector’s Apprentice, The Muralist, and The Art Forger, which won the New England Book Award for Fiction and the Boston Authors Society Award for Fiction, among other honors. Her books have been selected as community reads in numerous cities and translated throughout the world. Before becoming a novelist, she taught sociology at Tufts University and creative writing at Northeastern University.
Judy Bolton-Fasman is the author of ASYLUM: A Memoir of Family Secrets from Mandel Vilar Press. Her essays and reviews have appeared in major newspapers including the New York Times and Boston Globe, essay anthologies, and literary magazines. She is the recipient of numerous writing fellowships. She recently won her 6th and 7th Rockower Awards from the American Jewish Press Association and is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee and a Best of the Net nominee. Judy’s work has also been nominated for the Best American Essay series.
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