Bad Books (Kindle Single) (Ploughshares Solos Volume 3 Book 6)

Sofia is in a rut. Her dissertation work is stalled, and her life seems to be one gray day after another. When an elderly scholar, Monsieur Charles Vinson, invites her to his house in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon to spend the summer writing and cataloging his dead father's papers, she jumps at the offer. There, in the south of France, Sofia spends her days flipping through an archive of anti-Semitic papers and relics from the past century, burrowing deeper into the troubled history of the Vinson family. In the process, she will uncover secrets both innocuous and dangerous, and immerse herself in the measured and civilized life of the Vinson family -- and, perhaps, find her own work worth doing.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clare Needham graduated from Barnard College, where she wrote Bad Books and received numerous recognitions for her writing, including the Howard M. Teichmann Writing Prize. Her work has been published in The New Inquiry, Armchair/Shotgun, Fiction Attic Press, and Bodega Magazine. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell Colony, and is currently an MFA student at Hunter College in New York.