Litquake's Epicenter: Frances Stroh in Conversation with Jack Boulware
Organization:
Litquake Literary Festival
Category:
Literary
Geographical Area:
San Francisco
Start
Date:
5/9/2016
End Date:
5/9/2016
Start Time:
7:00 PM
End Time:
8:30 PM
Event
Info:
Litquake is proud to host the San Francisco launch of Frances Stroh's debut book, Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss. She will be in conversation with Litquake co-founder Jack Boulware. Book sales by Green Apple Books and signing to follow.
In Beer Money, Frances Stroh reveals the complexities of her childhood and coming of age as a member of Detroit's Stroh's Beer family, once in possession of the largest private beer fortune in America. Declining from Forbes 400 to nearly penniless in 16 years, the Stroh Brewery Company suffered a rapid and precipitous loss of market share during the 1980s and 1990s. The slow unraveling of Frances' nuclear family, in the face of her father's alcoholism and her brother's drug addiction, coupled with the loss of the family's legacy, is seen with brutal honesty and unsettling detail through Frances' unwavering lens-much like a time-lapse film of psychological erosion. Beer Money: A Memoir of Privilege and Loss is at once a recollection of a city, an industry, and a dynasty in decline, and the story of a young artist who struggles to find her way out of the ruins.
Jack Boulware is author or co-author of three nonfiction books, including the Bay Area punk history Gimme Something Better. He is co-founder of Litquake.
Frances Stroh is author of the new memoir Beer Money: A Story of Privilege and Loss, which chronicles her coming of age in the midst of the Stroh's Beer family's decline coupled with the unraveling of Detroit.
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