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Thu, 10/09/2014 - 11:00am to 11:30am
Peyton Marshall on her new novel "Goodhouse"
We speak wiht Portland author Peyton Marshall about her debut novel GOODHOUSE. Marshall is a former member of an all-female punk band in the 90s.
In Goodhouse Marshalll imagines a grim and startling future. At the end of the twenty-first century—in a transformed America—the families of convicted felons are tested for a set of genetic markers. Boys who test positive become compulsory wards of the state—removed from their homes and raised on "Goodhouse" campuses, where they learn to reform their darkest thoughts and impulses. Goodhouse is a feral place—part prison, part boarding school—and now a radical religious group, the Holy Redeemer’s Church of Purity, is intent on destroying each campus and purifying every child with fire.
Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, A Public Space, Etiquetta Negra, Blackbird, Five Chapters, and Best New American Voices. Goodhouse is her first novel.
In Goodhouse Marshalll imagines a grim and startling future. At the end of the twenty-first century—in a transformed America—the families of convicted felons are tested for a set of genetic markers. Boys who test positive become compulsory wards of the state—removed from their homes and raised on "Goodhouse" campuses, where they learn to reform their darkest thoughts and impulses. Goodhouse is a feral place—part prison, part boarding school—and now a radical religious group, the Holy Redeemer’s Church of Purity, is intent on destroying each campus and purifying every child with fire.
Peyton Marshall is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, A Public Space, Etiquetta Negra, Blackbird, Five Chapters, and Best New American Voices. Goodhouse is her first novel.