Events & Calendars Fiction Reading by Susan Stinson

Susan Stinson’s newest novel, "Spider in a Tree," takes place in Northampton during the time of theologian, preacher and slave-owner Jonathan Edwards. Alison Bechdel describes it as “a revelation”: “Susan Stinson has wrought something wondrous in this book about the spiritual tribulations of a community of New England Calvinists.” Stinson, the author of three previous novels and a collection of poetry and lyric essays, was awarded the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelist Prize from the Lambda Literary Foundation in 2011. She is writer-in-residence at Forbes Library.