Saturday, April 20th, 8pm at ETG Book Cafe, 208 Bay St, SINY 10301. Special thanks to Katie & Steve, for their hospitality!

Staten Island OutLOUD hosts a stage reading of Kelly Link’s magical story.
Directed by Vincent Vok. Featuring Margaret Chase, John Bostrom, Melisande Echanique, Jack Freedman, Rona Solomon & Vincent Vok.
A sweet grandmother has a very old handbag. If you open the clasp one way, you’ll look inside her purse and see her grandmotherly handbag things.
But if you open the clasp another way, the handbag opens to reveal an old European village with cobblestone streets, wishing wells, picturesque people, steeples and cats.
Be careful, or you could fall in. And then, you could …
And by the way, is grandma really that sweet? Or is she….
This event is free & open to the public.
Book giveaway, too!

This event is part of our series on Kelly Link’s short story collection, Pretty Monsters, for the National Endowment for the Arts / The Big Read. The NEA presents The Big Read in partnership with the Institute for Museum and Library services, and in cooperation with Arts Midwest. www.neabigread.org