Apr 23 2022
Susan Krieger – Are You Two Sisters?

Susan Krieger – Are You Two Sisters?

Presented by Book Passage at Book Passage, Corte Madera

In-person at the Corte Madera store

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Are You Two Sisters? is Susan Krieger's candid, revealing, and engrossing account about the intimacies of a lesbian couple.

Krieger explores how she and her partner confront both the inner challenges of their relationship and the invisibility of lesbian identity in the larger world.

Using a lively novelistic and autoethnographic approach that toggles back and forth in time, Krieger reflects on the evolution of her forty-year relationship. She describes building a life together, from sharing pets and travels to getting married.

Are You Two Sisters? addresses not only questions of gender and sexuality, but also of disability, as the author explores how the couple adapts to her increasing blindness.

Krieger's title comes from a question asked by a stranger outside a remote desert bar as she and her partner Hannah travel in the Southwest. Her apprehension about answering that question suggests how, even after the legalization of gay marriage, lesbianism often remains hidden—an observation that makes Krieger's poignant narrative all the more moving.

 

Susan Krieger is a sociologist, writer, and Research Fellow at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research, Stanford University. She is the author of seven prior books: Hip CapitalismThe Mirror Dance: Identity in a Women's CommunitySocial Science and the Self: Personal Essays on an Art FormThe Family Silver: Essays on Relationships among WomenThings No Longer There: A Memoir of Losing Sight and Finding VisionTraveling Blind: Adventures in Vision with a Guide Dog by My Side; and Come Let Me Guide You: A Life Shared with a Guide Dog.

Admission Info

Free admission

Phone: 415-927-0960

Email: nmitchell@bookpassage.com

Additional time info:

1:00 - 2:30 pm

Dates & Times

2022/04/23 - 2022/04/23

Location Info

Book Passage, Corte Madera

51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA 94925

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