Friday, September 28 6:30 p.m.
Northfield Arts Guild Center for the Arts, 304 Division Street S., Northfield
as part of the Galen Arthur Brown Shapes and Shadows Artist Reception
- Selections from Laura Palmer’s Shrapnel in the Heart at 6:30 pm, read by actors: Susan Carlson, Kevin Chapman, Felicia Crosby, Elin Odegaard, Jill Luoma-Overstreet, Bryan Reed, and Rob Schanilec. Directed by Rachel Haider.
- Remarks from Curator, Kay Adkins Brown at 7:30 pm.
Shrapnel in the Heart:
LETTERS AND REMEMBRANCES FROM THE VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL By LAURA PALMER
ABOUT SHRAPNEL IN THE HEART: For the first time, one book gives voice to the haunting, painful, tender, and healing tales of those who lost so much in America’s least popular war.
PRAISE
- “This tour de force brings home the pain and suffering of soldiers and kin in a way that no other writing has with which I’m familiar. It is simply splendid.” — Walter Cronkite
- “A moving, touching, generous book that helps restore humanity to a generation of young Americans who were depersonalized and dehumanized by the political passions of an unpopular war. Read it and weep.” — Ted Koppel
- “This is a book that needed to be written. Laura Palmer’s sensitivity and understanding…may indeed make Shrapnel in the Heart a classic.” — Jan Scruggs, President, Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
