Virginia Holman will read and sign her book, Rescuing Patty Hearst, 12 April

On Saturday, 12 April, at 2:00 p.m. in the Perkins Rare Book Room, Virginia Holman will read and sign Rescuing Patty Hearst [Memories of a Decade Gone Mad], which is an incisive account of her life with a schizophrenic parent. A published excerpt from the memoir won a Puschcart Prize in 2000.

Holman's articles and reviews have appeared in the Washington Post, USA Today, DoubleTake, Book Magazine, Self, and Redbook.