The 2019-2020 season of the Great Falls Forum continues on Thursday, November 21st, featuring author Sarah Perry, with a talk entitled “After the Eclipse: Grief, the Law, and the Making of a Memoir.” The program will take place from 12 noon to 1 PM in Callahan Hall at the Lewiston Public Library.
A violent act is an epicenter; it shakes everyone within reach and creates other stories, cracks open the earth and reveals buried secrets.” So begins After the Eclipse: A Mother’s Murder, a Daughter’s Search, Sarah Perry’s account of her mother’s murder in Bridgton, Maine, when Sarah was twelve years old. Crystal Perry was a hardworking single mother, a hand-sewer in the Sebago shoe shop who was beloved by many in her hometown. During a twelve-year investigation, local police and state detectives worked tirelessly to find her killer, while Sarah, the only witness, did what she could to help them while working to grow into a woman who would make her mother proud. Driven to know more about Crystal even after the trial, she wrote After the Eclipse, published in 2017 to excellent reviews in The New York Times, The Portland Press Herald, Slate, Kirkus, and Publisher’s Weekly.
In the six-year process of writing the book, Sarah interviewed many people involved in the investigation, including lead detective Walter Grzyb. For this month’s Great Falls Forum, Sarah and Det. Grzyb will come together for a discussion of Crystal’s life and death, as well as their process of revisiting both for the creation of the book.
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