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 Our own Elizabeth Kadetsky gave a reading from the beginning of her forthcoming novella, On an Island at the Center of the Center of the World, as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series on Thursday, February 26 in Foster Auditorium. Elizabeth’s published work includes fiction, memoirs, personal essays, and narrative journalism. She has a published memoir with Little, Brown called First There Is A Mountain: A Yoga Romance, an account of her year spent in India as a Fulbright scholar studying with famed yoga master BKS Iyengar, and which explores her yogic journey with the fearless intuitions of a journalist and the powerful and careful prose of an accomplished essayist.

Andrew Foster Altschul has said of her forthcoming novella that “Elizabeth Kadetsky’s malta is a land of unstable identities and suppressed violence, a blank map onto which her characters’ confusion and paranoia are projected. Kadetsky’s novella brilliantly dramatizes a foreigner’s sense of otherness, and the looming panic of a woman trying to pick up the pieces of her life by escaping the self,” an observation which aptly sums up one of many of Kadetsky’s great strengths as a writer.

We had a wonderful evening getting to listen to Elizabeth read and can’t wait to get our hands on her novella–due out this April!