Prairie Lights is excited to join forces with Books & Books and Left Bank Books for this special conversation with Édouard Louis to celebrate the release of his new book A Woman's Battles and Transformations. Édouard will be joined in conversation by Garth Greenwell.

This event will take place on Crowdcast. You can register here: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/edouardlouis/register 

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Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, Édouard Louis is a novelist and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. He is the coauthor, with the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, of “Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive,” published in English by the Los Angeles Review of Books.

Garth Greenwell is the author of two books of fiction, Cleanness and What Belongs to You. A 2020 Guggenheim Fellow, he received the 2021 Vursell Award for prose style from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Iowa City.