Anne Germanacos

Harvard Book Store is very pleased to welcome award-winning short story writer ANNE GERMANACOS for a reading from her first story collection, In the Time of the Girls.

The stories in Germanacos’ debut collection are heavily informed by her life in Greece, and are often just as strange and tragic as the myths they riff on. In one story, a middle-aged woman with a checkered past falls in love with the epileptic kindergartner next-door. In another, a contemporary Oedipus, living with his mother in a house full of cats, is cured of his blindness while a neighbor woman’s head boils on a stove up the street. There’s a treatise on monsters. A Bulgarian migrant cleaning woman whose gold teeth turn silver. A herd of goats gnawing on notepads stolen from a New York City hotel.  And a man called Adam who paints scenes on his partner Eve’s back while the baby they retrieved from a dump crawls toward them with a dripping diaper.