Sarah Pleydell Publishes Novel Cologne and will Present Panel with Rose Solari

Sarah Pleydell publishes first novel and presents on panel with Rose Solari.

Sarah, a long-time lecturer in the department, recently published her first novel, Cologne. It was selected for a reading at the Writers' Center on the final night of the Fall for the Book Festival in September. Sarah will also be presenting  a panel the same weekend with Rose Solari, an MFA alumna and past lecturer in the MFA program. 

The following is a summary of Sarah and Rose's panel:

WRITING FAMILY, WRITING COUNTRY (panel with Rose Solari at the Baltimore Book Festival)

Sarah Pleydell and Rose Solari, two first-time novelists explore the ways in which families and countries of origin function as concentric circles of identity for their characters, who face unresolved conflicts both personal and public. In Cologne, Sarah Pleydell depicts the London landscape of the late-1950s as the meeting ground of childhood and post-WWII trauma; in this crucible of family and country, the dichotomy between winners and losers dissolves, and survival is envisioned in new terms. In A Secret Woman, Rose Solari explores how an estranged American mother and daughter can be reconciled, after the mother’s death, in the realm of England’s myth and history. This other country becomes an agent of forgiveness and reinvention for the daughter as well as for her mother.