Kathleen Watt in Conversation with Mark Gilbert to Discuss Memoir, Rearranged
The Linden Review contributor Kathleen Watt will be giving a reading, discussion, Q&A, and book signing for her memoir, Rearranged, at KANEKO in Omaha on March 29, 2024, at 6:00 pm, in partnership with The Bookworm bookstore. She will be joined by The Linden Review arts editor Mark Gilbert. The event is free and open to the public.
Watt’s book was excerpted in Issue 4 of The Linden Review in the essay “Honey, I’m a Monster.”
In lyrical prose, with musical allusions, clinical references, and a bit of comic relief, Rearranged follows Kathleen Watt's plunge from the operatic stage into the netherworld of hospital life, through the devastation of an osteogenic sarcoma tumor in her midface, and out the other side. Kathleen was a soprano singing with the New York Metropolitan Opera chorus, when a rare and vicious bone cancer blew her career to smithereens, along with her face. Rescued by lethal toxins, titanium screws, and infinite kindness, the life she resumed was catastrophically transposed. Rearranged describes letting go to hold on; putting old pieces to new uses; and the unlikely arrangements that make everything work out. This heart-wrenching medical odyssey becomes a joyous personal journey of transformation.
Full information for the event, including free registration and instructions for reserving a copy of the book to be signed, is available here.