author of My Mother’s House
1:30 PM on Friday, October 21
David Armand returns to the symposium with his memoir, My Mother’s House, about growing up with a schizophrenic mother, being adopted to a family with an alcoholic father, and ultimately reuniting with his mother after a failed suicide attempt. He has published three novels, The Pugilist’s Wife, Harlow, and The Gorge, as well as a chapbook of poems, The Deep Woods.