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Author Visit - Claire McMillan

Author of "Alchemy of a Blackbird"

2023-07-18 19:00:00 2023-07-18 20:30:00 America/New_York Author Visit - Claire McMillan Join Cleveland-area author Claire McMillan as she discusses her new fiction title "Alchemy of a Blackbird." Westlake Porter Public Library - Porter Room

Tuesday, July 18
7:00pm - 8:30pm

Add to Calendar 2023-07-18 19:00:00 2023-07-18 20:30:00 America/New_York Author Visit - Claire McMillan Join Cleveland-area author Claire McMillan as she discusses her new fiction title "Alchemy of a Blackbird." Westlake Porter Public Library - Porter Room

Join Cleveland-area author Claire McMillan as she discusses her new fiction title "Alchemy of a Blackbird."

Cleveland-area author Claire McMillan will be at the library to discuss her new title Alchemy of a Blackbird. Claire is the author of The Gilded Age (2012) and The Necklace (2017).  She was also Cuyahoga County Public Library's William N. Skirball Writers' Center Writer-in-Residence 2017-18.


cover of Alchemy of a BlackbirdFrom SimonandShuster.com

For fans of The Age of Light and Z, a mystical, historical novel based on the true story of the 20th-century painters and occultists Remedios Varo and Leonora Carrington, each beginning as the muse of a famous lover and then breaking away to become an icon in her own right through a powerful friendship that springs from their connection to the tarot.

Desperate to escape the Nazis, painter Remedios Varo and her lover, poet Benjamin Peret, flee Paris for Villa Air Bel, a safe house for artists on the Riviera. Along with Max Ernst, Peggy Guggenheim, and others, the two anxiously wait for exit papers. As the months pass, Remedios begins to sense that the others don’t see her as a fellow artist; they have cast her in the stifling role of a surrealist ideal: the beautiful innocent. She finds refuge in a mysterious bookshop, where she stumbles into a world of occult learning and intensifies an esoteric practice in the tarot that helps her light the bright fire of her creative genius.

When travel documents come through, Remedios and Benjamin flee to Mexico where she is reunited with friend and fellow painter Leonora Carrington. Together, the women tap into their creativity, stake their independence, and each find their true loves. But it is the tarot that enables them to access the transcendent that lies on the other side of consciousness, to become the truest Surrealists of all.

From an author with “an enchanting, intoxicating voice” (Cristina Alger, author of The Darlings), Alchemy of a Blackbird is about a dynamic female friendship that became a historic artistic collaboration between two giants of the art world.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Books and Authors |

TAGS: | authors |

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Westlake Porter Public Library is an independent public library serving the residents of the city of Westlake, western Cuyahoga County and eastern Lorain County. The library is located at 27333 Center Ridge Road in Westlake, Ohio. Anyone who lives, works, owns property, or goes to school in Ohio can register for a free library card.

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